Quotes About Mortality

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.

The name Downhere comes from a song I wrote after a friend of mine died in college, and it was kind of the first time I was dealing with loss and, you know, real mortality, and it was a song of how down here on Earth, we don't have the big picture.

When you have a child, you think about your own mortality.

It's always been intriguing to me, the loveability of mortality.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is a walking bundle of mortality. I'm painfully aware he's going to pass.

I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.

Bedtime is when I get most anxious because I have time to contemplate. I'm also more likely to question my mortality and catastrophise if I've seen or heard something upsetting about somebody.

I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister.

I've been aware of my own mortality since I was 12.

We are mortals, we will die one day.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

If I were to believe in the stories of the of the gods, then the gods do not need mortals to defend them, do they?

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

I certainly don't want to die playing a round of golf. And I don't want to die like Elvis. That's all they remember about him - the most beautiful man on the planet.