Mortality Quotes

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
Joan D. Vinge

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
Leon Kass

Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.
Henry Beston

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
Christina G. Rossetti

We've been using a three-prong strategy since 2002 to forestall and hopefully reduce the mortality of the hemlocks.
Bob Miller

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all.

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.

Insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal.

Mortality / Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.

God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.
Jacques Rigaut

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity.

There is no mortality. It is only the Immortal who can die; the mortal could neither be born nor perish. There is nothing finite. It is only the Infinite who can make for Himself limits; the finite can have no beginning nor end, for the very act of conceiving its beginning and end declares its infinity.







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