Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Mortality Quotes
CommonalityEqualityMortality All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
AgingLife LessonsMortality All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Human ConditionMortalityPurposeSuffering No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
ExistenceLife and DeathMortalityReflection Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
DeterminationMortalityNatureResolution Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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.
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.
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.
ChangeCourageIntimacyMortalityTransformation Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
LifeMortalityRiskUncertainty The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'
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.
AcceptanceLifeMortalityPurpose Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
DiseaseExistenceHumorLifeMortality Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
College LifeHumorMortalitySarcasm Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
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.
AnxietyCourageFearMindsetMortality Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
