Mortality Quotes

• 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.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Words
  • Knowledge

• In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

  

  William Blake
  • Earth
  • Imagination
  • Heaven

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

  

  Lance Loud
  • Move
  • Generous
  • Mortality

• You realize mortality is everywhere.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • You
  • Realize
  • Mortality

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Retiring
  • Mortality

• From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Important
  • Philosophy
  • Issues

• You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • Age
  • Today

• You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Doubt

• I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Kind
  • Morality
  • Mortality

• My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Father
  • Memory
  • Mortality

• We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Simple
  • Chance
  • Promise

• The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Death
  • Eye
  • Sober

• I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • World
  • Long
  • Wonder

• 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.

  

  Edward Dunlop
  • Angel
  • Camps
  • God Knows

• I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Thinking
  • Strange
  • Possibility

• We’re mortals, and you do question your mortality when something like this happens. But he’s over the hurdle now.

  

  Nicko McBrain Iron Maiden
  • Question
  • Mortality
  • Mortals

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

  

  Evelyn Fox Keller
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mad
  • Nostalgia
  • Acquaintance

• This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

  

  James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Illusion

• They have agreed to donate another 2 million courses, that is 20 million doses, for use by affected countries who reported human cases to reduce morbidity and mortality and to delay the spread of the infection.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Mortality
  • Infection
  • Morbidity

• It could make a substantial difference. The estimates ... have suggested that you might be able to cut mortality roughly in half.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Difference
  • Mortality
  • Estimates

• I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Death

• How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

  

  John Milton
  • Earth
  • Sentence
  • Sensible

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

  

  Lord Byron
  • Seek
  • Mortality

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