Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Mortality Quotes
HumilityMortalityProgressSelf Sacrifice I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
CommonalityEqualityMortality All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
AcceptanceLifeMortalityPurpose Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Mortality In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
Emotional ResponseExistenceLife And SleepMortalityTime Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
FutureMortalityTime What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
LifeMortalityRiskUncertainty The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'
CourageFearMortality If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
College LifeHumorMortalitySarcasm Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
ChangeCourageIntimacyMortalityTransformation Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
LivingMortalityThought We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
AnxietyCourageFearMindsetMortality Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
DiseaseExistenceHumorLifeMortality Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
AgingLife LessonsMortality All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
DeterminationMortalityNatureResolution Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
MortalityPhysical HealthProactivenessSpirituality As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
MortalityRealismSuffering I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
AgingDeathLife PerspectiveMortalityTime My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
ExistenceFateMortalityNature's LawTime Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
DeathFinalityMortality The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
HumanityLoveMortalityTriviality We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
AcceptanceMortalityPeaceResilience I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
