79 Mortality Quotes for You to Enjoy

The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies. Florentijn Hofman

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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. Gary Shteyngart

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As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act. James E. Faust

Son Father Significant Born Only Could Divine He Mortality Perform Most Attributes Person Act Flesh Inherited Who Ever Jesus

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

News Feeling Half Spent Would Would-Be Minutes Russians Knew Mortality Missile Hour Most Dead Around Arrive Were Lot Up Blown Wondering Childhood Being Stand

I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be embracing my mortality. I told him it would keep me grounded - like when people get skull tattoos. Jennifer Connelly

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. Joan D. Vinge

Immortality Mortality Obsession Because Human Chose Universal

There's two ways of dealing with fears of mortality. One of them is to hide, so every day you wear the same suit and go to the same job... and the other is to reinvent yourself. I think I reinvent myself all the time. The idea that I would have to be one thing for the rest of my life would just be a soul-destroying idea. John Ralston Saul

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As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences. Kevin Nealon

Life You Avenue Older Thinking Life Experiences About Mortality New Opens Protecting Subconsciously Up Get Offspring Experiences Your Whole Start

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Related High Obesity Rise Rates Mortality Infant Infant Mortality Epidemic

I'm a leukemia survivor, and I recall during my darkest days in the hospital when my friends would come to see me, especially the male friends - they had certain mortality issues with their visit. Lew Temple

Me Darkest Visit Would See Hospital Had Mortality Days Come Issues Male Friends Survivor Certain Recall Leukemia

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

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

Strong Nurses Our Correlation Rates Hospitals Studies Mortality Between Shortages

Whereas in America we are so fearful of mortality, we don't want to talk about it, we don't think about it, and in many ways we treat elderly people as invisible because they are a constant reminder of our own mortality. We put them away and put them in retirement homes so we don't want to deal with that. Lulu Wang

People Treat Own Think Our Ways Constant Fearful About Put Mortality Reminder Retirement Invisible Talk Because Deal America Want Whereas Them Elderly Many Homes Away

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. Marc Martel

Time You Song College First Picture Big Down Earth Mine Kind Mortality Name Know Wrote First Time Dealing How Real Loss Friend Big Picture Died After Here