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In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality. -- Thomas S. Monson
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. -- Frank Herbert
I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. -- Mitch Hedberg
Mortality defines the human condition. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
There is nothing serious in Mortality -- William Shakespeare
Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50. -- Keanu Reeves
Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much. -- Euripides
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality -- Aphra Behn
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for. -- Mason Cooley
Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. -- George Santayana
Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. -- Nick Tosches
Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on. -- Lauren Kate
Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones, -- Cassandra Clare
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean â??More people diedâ? donâ??t say â??Mortality rose. -- C. S. Lewis
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late. -- Mitch Albom
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.' -- Mitch Albom
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.' -- William Osler
Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it. -- Anthony Hopkins
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. -- R. D. Laing
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more. -- Brandon Boyd
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? -- Jorge Luis Borges
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. -- M. Russell Ballard
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life. -- Bernie Siegel
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time. -- Sting
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. -- David A. Bednar
Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. -- Lois Capps
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. -- Ian Botham
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. -- George Herbert
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. -- Hafez
O Charidas, what of the under world?" "Great darkness." "And what of the resurrection?" "A lie." "And Pluto?" "A fable; we perish utterly. -- Callimachus
I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality. -- Mitch Albom
To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed. -- Marie Bashkirtseff
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. -- Christina Rossetti
To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality! -- Emily Dickinson
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. -- Gene Tunney
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. -- Susan Sontag
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it. -- Martial
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
To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began, Alike the busy and the gay, But flutter through life's little day. -- Thomas Gray
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. -- Paul Farmer
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever. -- Samuel Johnson
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
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
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific. -- Dr. Seuss
When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.' -- David Johansen
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. -- Paul Farmer
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. -- Felicity Huffman
Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children. -- Jane Howard
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility. -- Rose George
Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been. -- Matthew Arnold
The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee. -- William C. Bryant
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else. -- Leonard Nimoy
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. -- David Cronenberg
What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off. -- Alice Dreger
The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing. -- Conor Oberst
A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious. -- Norman Foster
Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.' -- David Chase
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality. -- Martha Beck
I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may. -- Chris Pine
Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety. -- Henry B. Eyring
I'm always aware of mortality. -- Marc Almond
You realize mortality is everywhere. -- Katey Sagal
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. -- Bodhidharma
God is a placebo for your own mortality. -- Robert Barron
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. -- Tom Stoppard
All power is in essence power to deny mortality. -- Ernest Becker
God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. -- Jacques Rigaut
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. -- Horace
I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality. -- Elizabeth Edwards
I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time. -- Mitch Albom
Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland. -- James W. Blinn
Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality. -- John Elway
Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman. -- Leon Kass
It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality. -- J. K. Rowling
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. -- Joan D. Vinge
This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. -- Lord Byron
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais
It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically. -- Cassandra Clare
I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality. -- Steven Ramirez
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. -- Djuna Barnes
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience. -- Euripides
People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. -- Moby
I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move. -- Lance Loud
Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults. -- Lee Unkrich
There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies... -- Joseph Conrad
The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality. -- Frances Lear
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. -- Anna Quindlen
Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. -- Atul Gawande
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. -- Robert Breault
If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent. -- Hans Rosling
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. -- Mehmet Oz
Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality. -- Sam Keen
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old. -- Hideo Kojima
I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. -- Edward Hirsch
The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart. -- Robert Fagles
I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. -- Josh Billings
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases. -- Peter Morgan
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. -- Tammy Baldwin
Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love. -- Craig Johnson
There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate. -- Stephen King
Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity. -- Thomas S. Monson
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. -- John Ford
I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. -- Atul Gawande
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust. -- Francis Bacon
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality. -- William Gibson
I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality. -- Nikki Sixx
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. -- Allen Tate
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children -- Amartya Sen

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