Mortality Quotes

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.

If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.

Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.

Make your life a work of art and you will never die.

Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice.

The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more

Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die.

We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.

My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.

We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives...then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life – growing inside you – and I became mortal.

The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding.

As a young girl I was told the truth. I knew about death. I was afraid to lose but not afraid to die.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition?Probably not. Why would you? Well, l

Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.

I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.

The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see.

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.

By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will be left behind cope with losing me and to facilitate healing.

If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

I knew the end would come, one day. I knew my life deserved to be over. Yet, even knowing that, I was no less fearful.

He let out a short laugh. "You sound like Sherlock Holmes. You gonna pull out a magnifying glass? A pipe, maybe?

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.

Murder was a fascination as always.

Americans in 1763 lived always in the shadow and presence of death. Death was not yet romanticized as it would be in the 19th century, nor yet sanitized as it would be in the 20th century.

I don't see how you mortals do it, these feelings you must endure. they will ruin you in the end.

Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly

The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

Human says time goes by -Time says human goes by

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.