Best 456 quotes in «mortality quotes» category

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

I don't mean to say that you shouldn't take care of your body, or want to keep it from dying. But it doesn't have the same hold as when you totally identify yourself as the body. To recognize the tenderness of mortality, the fragility of your life form and all life forms, including cosmic life forms, is to be humbled in a deep way that is actually enlivening.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

There is nothing serious in Mortality

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

Accepting one's age and mortality is a sign that you've now become an adult. Once you realize you no longer fit in the same jeans you did when you were 30, and the spicy foods you loved when you were younger now like to revisit you at 2 AM, you come to realize that with aging comes adjustment. And, aging isn't a bad thing - it sure beats the alternative!

Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you in the field where men win fame. But now, as it is, the fates of death await us, thousands poised to strike, and not a man alive can flee them or escape – so in we go for attack! Give our enemy glory or win it for ourselves!

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

A death may be a death, or early warning of existential threat or out-of-context problem. Nothing occurs in isolation. The world’s doom ripples back and forth through time.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.