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Quotes About Mortality

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.
~ Dick Francis
The years that remain are clearly limited. When you're 80, you attend a lot more funerals. A lot more people are having a hard time and are ill.
~ Judith Viorst
If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
~ Mark Helprin
It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
~ Magnus Magnusson
'The Infinities' is a shortish book but densely loaded with Nabokovian slyness, gorgeous imagery, and disturbing insights into what it means to be mortal.
~ Justin Cartwright
The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.
~ David Shields
Life is mortal. There are all these rewards and consequences. Sometimes you embrace them, and sometimes they knock you over.
~ Kurt Vile
Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
~ Leon Kass
There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They're forgotten, bewildered, and I don't think it's because people are cruel or don't care. It's because you don't want to think about your own mortality. I think people don't talk about it enough.
~ Ricky Gervais
We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings.
~ Satya Nadella
Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.
~ Thomas Sydenham
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
~ Nicholas Kristof
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
~ Brandon Boyd
Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.
~ Martha Nussbaum
I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
~ Caitlin Doughty
I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.
~ Renato Dulbecco
You realize mortality is everywhere.
~ Katey Sagal
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
~ William Falconer
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
~ Bodhidharma
'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.
~ Adam Silvera
I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
~ Lance Loud
I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.
~ Matthew Rhys
Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much.
~ James Mercer
A Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ's example in her daily living begins to fulfill the plan of our Heavenly Father for her. By so doing, she can be a powerful influence for good in today's world and meet the challenges of mortality. I have known such women, and they have been a guiding light to me.
~ Margaret D. Nadauld