Facing Mortality Quotes

#1. But if you hear the call to make your life about more than you and what you can contribute, you will have peace, not anxiety, when facing mortality.

Jeff Goins

#2. What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide but existential authenticity each person must find on her own. Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Paul Kalanithi

#3. I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

Michael Eric Dyson

#4. Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.... The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.

Richard Rohr

#6. Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want ... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.

Andy Richter

#7. Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

Willem Dafoe

#8. I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

Renzo Rosso

#9. I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

Tatiana Maslany

#10. Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

Margaret Cho

#11. You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

Larry Ellison

#12. Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.

Susan Neiman

#13. When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#14. Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Henry Ford

#15. During summer or charity games I'll wear my bright orange or green or turquoise ones and guys are always like, 'Why are your shoes so bright?'

James Harden