Mortality quotes

Mortality

77 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Tammy Baldwin Politician

"The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

"Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave."

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Evelyn Fox Keller Physicist

"To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth."

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George Herbert Poet

"That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust."

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Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer

"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror."

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher

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"There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children"

Children Mortality Literacy

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar

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"For nothing is evil in the beginning."

Evil Mortality

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Djuna Barnes Author, Poet

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"We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality."

Wind Skins Mortality

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer

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

Different Mortality

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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer

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"There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies."

Lying Mortality Flavour

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Euripides Playwright

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"Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience."

Life Mortality Alas

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

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"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."

Tired Dying Mortality

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman

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"Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span."

Moments Appearance Mortality

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist

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"I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality."

Cancer Scare Mortality

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet

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"What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?"

World Form Mortality

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Allen Tate Poet, Critic

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"Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank."

Vocabulary Mortality Hermes

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end."

Remember Speak Mortality

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Peter Morgan Screenwriter

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"As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases."

Our Relationship Mortality Demise

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Euripides Playwright

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"Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much."

Men Too Much Mortality

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"There is nothing serious in Mortality"

Serious Mortality

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!"

Mad Nostalgia Mortality

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die."

Dies Certain Mortality

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian

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"Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!"

One Day Mortality Ruthless

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Stephen King Author

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"There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate."

Zero Eternity Mortality

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter

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"It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality."

Strive Immortality Mortality

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