Mortality Quotes:

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

- Alphonse Allais

topic: Military, Statistics, Mortality

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

- Amartya Sen

topic: Children, Literacy, Mortality, Women's Education

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Giving, Mortality

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

- Aphra Behn

topic: Lying, Enough, Mortality

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

- Atul Gawande

topic: School, Medical, Mortality, Medical School

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

- Bodhidharma

topic: Mean, Awareness, Mortality

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Lilies, Fields, Mortality

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

- Craig Johnson

source: Craig Johnson (2007). “Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Longmire Mystery”, p.318, Penguin

topic: Mortality

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

- Djuna Barnes

topic: Wind, Skins, Mortality

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

- Ernest Becker

topic: Essence, Existential, Mortality

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

- Euripides

topic: Men, Too Much, Mortality

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

- Evelyn Fox Keller

topic: Science, Mortality, Claims, Universal Truth, Great Science

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

- Frances Lear

topic: Men, Reason, Mortality

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Demise, Mortality, Ends

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

- Gary Shteyngart

topic: Growing Up, Thinking, Mortality

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.

- Gretel Ehrlich

topic: Nature, Taken, Mortality

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

- Hideo Kojima

topic: Years, Facts, Mortality, Forty Years Old

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

- Ian Botham

source: Ian Botham (2017). “Botham: My Autobiography”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

topic: Faces, Moments, Mortality, Sportsman

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Evil, Mortality

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

- Joan D. Vinge

topic: Obsession, Immortality, Mortality

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

- Jodi Rell

topic: Cancer, Mortality

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

- John Elway

topic: Age, Mortality, Reaching

You realize mortality is everywhere.

- Katey Sagal

topic: Realizing, Mortality

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

- Lance Loud

topic: Moving, Mortality, Generous

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else

- Leonard Nimoy

topic: Inspiration, Curious, Mortality, Essays

No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

- Max More

topic: Ignorance, Weakness, Mortality, Holding Back

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.

- Mehmet Oz

source: "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 20, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Hours, Mortality

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

- Robert Barron

topic: God, Mortality, Placebo

NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!

- Samuel Epstein

topic: Cancer, Years, Mortality, Chemotherapy

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

- Sara Blakely

topic: Thinking, Numbers, Mortality

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.

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

topic: Moments, Photograph, Mortality, Memento Mori, Mutability

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.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Tired, Dying, Mortality

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

- Tammy Baldwin

topic: Country, Outcomes, Mortality, Infant Mortality

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

- Walter Duranty

topic: Disease, Mortality, Starvation, Malnutrition

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

- William Dean Howells

topic: Book, Mortality, Terrible

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

- Alex Lemon

topic: Writing, Mortality

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

- Kimberly Williams-Paisley

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Epidemics, Obesity Epidemic, Mortality, Infant Mortality

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.

- Alix Kates Shulman

topic: Profound, Way, Mortality

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

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

source: "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

topic: Cancer, Scare, Mortality

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

- Lee Unkrich

source: Source: www.thewrap.com

topic: Kids, Adults, Mortality

The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.

- Spencer W. Kimball

topic: Consideration, Mortality, Eternal

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

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

topic: Zero, Eternity, Mortality

We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Needs, Appearance, Mortality

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

topic: Mortality, Mortals

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.

- Sue Grafton

source: Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.68, Penguin

topic: Loved Ones, Mortality, Fine

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

- Christopher Plummer

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Drug, Mortality

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.

- Peter Morgan

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Demise, Our Relationship, Mortality

I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.

- Gangaji

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Despair, Students, Mortality

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

- Garrison Keillor

source: Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.128, Penguin

topic: Ridiculous, Mortality

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

- Allen Tate

source: Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.11, Macmillan

topic: Vocabulary, Mortality, Hermes, Narcissus

I'm always aware of mortality.

- Marc Almond

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Mortality

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

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert (1856). “The poetical works of George Herbert. Illustrated”, p.80

topic: Dust, Flesh, Mortality

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

- Thomas Pynchon

source: Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.653, Penguin

topic: Time, Sophisticated, Mortality

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Reality, Mortality, Traveler

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

- Dave Eggers

source: "Dave Eggers: From 'staggering genius' to America's conscience". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2010.

topic: People, Mortality, Lost

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Stones, Mortality, Existence

We must be born with an intuition of mortality.

- Tom Stoppard

source: Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Intuition, Mortality, Born, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

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

- Mason Cooley

topic: Life, Waste, Mortality

Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Mortality, Acquittal, Series, Postponement

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.243, New Directions Publishing

topic: World, Mortality, Form

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

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Doe, Mortality, Reactions

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

- Horace

source: Horace (1835). “Horace: The Epistles, book I-II. The Art of poetry. Appendix, containing translations of various odes, &c”, p.185

topic: Men, Years, Mortality

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

- William Gibson

source: "Why William Gibson Distrusts Aging Futurists’ Nostalgia". Interview with Seth Dickinson, www.wired.com. February 8, 2012.

topic: Age, Doe, Mortality, Futurist

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

- Mitch Albom

source: "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

topic: Mortality, Made

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

- Keanu Reeves

topic: Different, Mortality

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

- Edward Hirsch

source: "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

topic: Thinking, Lyric Poetry, Mortality

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

- Boyd K. Packer

topic: Longing, Mortality, Schemes

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

- Mother Teresa

source: Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.88, New World Library

topic: Mortality, Disappear, Missions

Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”

topic: Remember, Speak, Mortality

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.

- William Shakespeare

source: 1597-8 Shallow. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.2, l.35-6.

topic: Mortality, Certain, Dies

There is nothing serious in Mortality

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]

topic: Serious, Mortality

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

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.423

topic: Mad, Nostalgia, Mortality

Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Ernest Fleischer, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1830). “... The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: accurately printed from the text of the corrected copies, left by the late Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, and Edmond Malone ...”, p.18

topic: Age, Mortality, Graves, Milan

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

topic: One Day, Mortality, Ruthless

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

- Elizabeth Edwards

topic: Mortality, My Own

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

- J. K. Rowling

source: "Rowling Chats about Deathly Hallows". Interview with Lev Grossman, techland.time.com. July 31, 2007.

topic: Immortality, Strive, Mortality

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.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Moments, Appearance, Mortality

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

topic: Flames, Mortality, Made

It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

topic: Accepted, Mortality

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

- Euripides

topic: Life, Mortality, Alas