Mortality Quotes

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

Work, Good, Lost

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. Laing

Life, Percent, Disease

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

Time, Person, Moment

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

Long, Everything, Made

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.
Thomas S. Monson

Reality, Travelers, Explorers

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

Life, Best, Focus

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Before, Sun, Against

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Bodhidharma

Means, Delusion, Awareness

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.
Keanu Reeves

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
Sting

Time, Friends, Getting

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
Elizabeth Edwards

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

Children, Parents, Long

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.
Cate Blanchett

Children, Absolutely, Bringing

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.
Lewis Thomas

Mind, Deep, Wrong

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.
George H. W. Bush

Angry, Fire, Black

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

Life, Work, Live

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

Mind, Human, Reality

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.
Mehmet Oz

Work, Sit, Percent

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.
Lois Capps

Strong, Between, Nurses

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.
Sara Blakely

Time, Thought, Find

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
Dave Eggers

Lost, Young, Though

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
Jane Smiley

Feeling, Around, Dead

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

God, Put, Lives

You realize mortality is everywhere.
Katey Sagal

Realize, Everywhere

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.
Darren Aronofsky

Parents, Everything, Fighting

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

Health, Problems, Sense

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

Health, Words, Problem

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
Leon Kass

Woman, Means, Both

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

Life, Health, Mental

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

Time, Feeling, Realize

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