Top 100 Life Mortality Quotes
#1. The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.
C.S. Lewis
#2. We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves.
Marty Rubin
#3. It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.
Patricia Briggs
#4. Growing old is one of the ways the soul nudges itself into attention to the spiritual aspect of life. The body's changes teach us about fate, time, nature, mortality, and character. Aging forces us to decide what is important in life.
Thomas Moore
#5. My children have gone to Catholic school ... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.
Alice McDermott
#6. Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. Mortality was never designed to torture you. It was designed to test you.
Toni Sorenson
#8. Freedom isn't just about getting to make your own choices. It's about getting to enjoy the life you're given, to live life to the fullest. That's the beauty of mortality, of what makes someone human. Time is treasured. The eternal ... all they have is time.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#9. I was a couple of summers past twenty but I felt there were stones under that frozen, dun earth that were younger than me.
Robert Low
#10. I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
Dolph Lundgren
#11. Life must go on, yes, but in the end - after the end - life was not important, just pictures on a screen, absorbing for as long as they lasted, causing us to weep and laugh, perhaps, but when the images are gone we step out blinking into the light.
Stephen Volk
#12. Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.
LeCrae
#13. I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
Ayn Rand
#14. As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.
Iris Murdoch
#15. No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life
Rigoberta Menchu
#16. 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
#17. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
H. Rider Haggard
#18. An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
Bernie Siegel
#19. The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens.
Robert M. Price
#20. The secret cause of all suffering," he said, "is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed.
Joseph Campbell
#21. 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
#22. Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
Mohsin Hamid
#23. When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.
Alix Kates Shulman
#24. O, never from the memory of my heart
Your dear, paternal image shall depart,
Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised,
Taught me how mortals are immortalized;
How grateful am I for that patient care
All my life long my language shall declare.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#25. Personally I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we're not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule? - Kinsey Millhone
Sue Grafton
#26. Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.
John Taliaferro
#27. May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.
Ahmed Mostafa
#28. As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality.
Bruce R. McConkie
#30. Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
Mason Cooley
#31. Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R.D. Laing
#32. There's nothing serious in mortality;
All is but toys; renown, and grace, is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
William Shakespeare
#33. All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.
Audrey Auden
#34. I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
T. S. Eliot
#35. God is not someone you meet when you die. His smiling face will be the first and the most familiar to greet you on the other side of mortality. You'll recognize Him and know in your heart of hearts that you're not entering a new sphere, but returning home to the place you've always belonged.
Toni Sorenson
#36. I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.
John Tavener
#37. The young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, any more than in a hot June we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December.
Charles Lamb
#38. As if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do.
Angela Carter
#39. What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine, ... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal; ... would that be a life to disregard?
Plato
#40. The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we are at the utter whim of our Brutus bodies, which will inevitably, on day, turn on us for good. I am a prisoner, as we all are. And with that realization comes an aching sense of vulnerability.
Susannah Cahalan
#41. Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.
Ruth Ozeki
#42. They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.
N.K. Jemisin
#43. It is when we are confronted with ... poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth.
Kathleen Basford
#44. Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.
Julianna Baggott
#45. While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of mortality alone, we're doing it all wrong. Mortality is a test, but it is an open book test. We have access not only to the divine text but to Him who authored it.
Sheri L. Dew
#47. I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#48. Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; The night cometh.
David Brooks
#49. Think not I dread to see my spirit fly,
Through the dark gates of fell mortality;
Death has no terrors when the life is true;
'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.
Omar Khayyam
#50. Life is a battle, Sasha. All existence is in conflict. We fight the elements, we fight our consciences, we fight the limitations and eventual mortality of our bodies. All things happen by conflict, of one sort or another.
Joel Shepherd
#51. He'd learned something. Life was booby-trapped and there was no easy passage through. You had to jump from colour to colour, from happiness to happiness. And all those possible explosions in between. It could be all over any time.
Rupert Thomson
#52. I knew the end would come, one day. I knew my life deserved to be over. Yet, even knowing that, I was no less fearful.
Stacie Evans
#53. Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.
Frederick Lenz
#54. We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives ... then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last
Israelmore Ayivor
#55. Life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.
Garrison Keillor
#56. I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
Pablo Casals
#57. Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one's worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.
Georg Simmel
#58. If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.
Oswald Chambers
#60. I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product
And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.
Walt Whitman
#62. In other words, our decision making in medicine has failed so spectacularly that we have reached the point of actively inflicting harm on patients rather than confronting the subject of mortality. If end-of-life discussions were an experimental drug, the FDA would approve it. Patients
Atul Gawande
#63. Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
Irvin D. Yalom
#64. Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But he who garners day by day the good life, he is happiest.
Gilbert Murray
#65. Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.
Columba Stewart
#66. The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.
Ally Condie
#67. 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
#68. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
C.S. Lewis
#69. Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
Rick Riordan
#70. Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
P. J. O'Rourke
#71. It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a life-saver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.
Roger Ebert
#72. My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had - 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.
Willard Scott
#73. Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.
Russell M. Nelson
#76. Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
Seneca The Younger
#77. What is life without death, Beneficent? You of all people can answer that question. A never-ending orgy of emptiness that you stuff with meaningless activity. Everything is disposable, including your relationships
especially your your relationships.
Rick Yancey
#78. As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.
Peter Morgan
#79. We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.
Julia McNair Wright
#80. Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!
Alan Ball
#81. Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.
Craig Johnson
#82. Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.
Christopher Pike
#83. Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
Euripides
#84. We do our job and go. See? That is what Death is for. We work out all our little brains and all our little emotions, and then this lot begins afresh. Fresh and fresh! Perfectly simple. What's the trouble?
H.G.Wells
#85. Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.
Ronald Dworkin
#86. Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass
the earth
into the second
eternity.
Margaret George
#87. Social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. ( ... ) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.
Michael Marmot
#88. Paul," he said, "do you think my life has meaning? Did I make the right choices?"
It was stunning: even someone I considered a moral examplar had these questions in the face of mortality.
Paul Kalanithi
#89. Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to our deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. - LEON KASS, CHAIR OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON BIOETHICS, 2003
Ray Kurzweil
#90. Simple was never that simple. Still, the self-questioning did take some time to reach him. And if there's anything worse than self-questioning coming too early in life, it's self-questioning coming too late.
Philip Roth
#91. I do not understand how you know you only have one life if you have never died, because if you have never died, then you cannot possibly know if you would go on living a second life, or go on living no more lives.
Cassandra Kemper
#92. And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.
H. Rider Haggard
#93. Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.
Rosario Dawson
#94. I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.
Neal Stephenson
#95. 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
#96. Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.
Keith Carter
#97. Human mortality linked to the human ability consciously to choose how to act by exhibiting free will, humility, hard work, kindness, and compassion provide exemplary opportunities to learn and develop self-discipline.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#98. Death is never an ending, death is a change;
Death is beautiful, for death is strange;
Death is one dream out of another flowing.
Conrad Aiken
#99. Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
Nick Tosches
#100. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
