Mortality Quotes

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

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

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

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

For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

The end is never worth the beginning.

Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality.

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

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

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones.

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.

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

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

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

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

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.

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

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

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

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

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

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality

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

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

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

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.