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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

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. — Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. — Rick Riordan

When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality. — Margaret Stohl

Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat. — Matt Chandler

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. — Ian Botham

If you don't make peace with your own mortality, you'll never know what it's like to truly be alive. — Moxie Mezcal

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. — Evelyn Fox Keller

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on. — Frederick Lenz

He wore his age like a statement that fighting the ravages of time and mortality was beneath his notice. — James S.A. Corey

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. — Robert Breault

I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is. — Anne Rice

All power is in essence power to deny mortality. — Ernest Becker

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him. — David Pietrusza

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. — William Wordsworth

Take too much time, and time will take you. — Lisa Kleypas

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged. — Indira Gandhi

Ignorance nor enlighten is pointless drama — Usha Cosmico

The first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die. — Gertrude Diamant

Can't be any harder than sitting here and having a staring contest with mortality. — Brandon Sanderson

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

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition. — Walter Duranty

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. — Ernest Becker

Death is every mortal's life to be alive! — Munia Khan

The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality — Udayveer Singh

The past was irretrievable, the league of lonely men a fiction, the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on mortality. — Michael Chabon

Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things; they want to catch the infinite and nail it down to something finite. Impossible! — Seth Adam Smith

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

You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love. — Rick Yancey

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. — Edward Hirsch

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50. — Keanu Reeves

The highway's closed at a certain point. You have a certain amount of miles that you can make. It's a recognition of mortality. — Peter Ames Carlin

Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland. — James W. Blinn

I personally don't like depressing subjects, people say, as if mortality is a lifestyle choice, disease and violence and sorrow a matter of taste. — Sarah Moss

No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive. — Garth Risk Hallberg

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong. — Jim Butcher

I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice. — Raquel Cepeda

And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war. — Stephen Greco

I don't give a crap if you're a Tangent or a really smart llama. You're my friend and that's all that matters — James Dashner

Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes. — Peter Stillman

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. — Thomas Pynchon

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken. — Patricia Briggs

There is only one true wealth in all the universe
living time. — Frank Herbert

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. — Mehmet Oz

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;
And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain — Alexander Pope

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being. — Robert Breault

I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed. — Geraldine Brooks

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. — Jules Renard

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. — Michael Marmot

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. — Chuck Palahniuk

Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it. — Adam B. Ford

Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; The night cometh. — David Brooks

There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating. — Sarah Hall

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. — Lois Capps

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

Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you. — Caitlin Doughty

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

I've met some brave people in my life. And I've met some awfully stupid people. You're one of the rare ones that are both. — James Dashner

A small fact:
You are going to die ... does this worry you? — Markus Zusak

Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration. — Gretel Ehrlich

Listen, I'm not ... Oh man, this is crazy. I can't do this. — James Dashner

Fun fact about life or death fights between capes. You start letting your enemies make the first move, your mortality rate triples. — Wildbow

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. — Josh Billings

His own mortality held only an intellectual fascination for him, a dry luster; and, having no religion, he did not believe in ghosts. — Eleanor Catton

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall
die. — William Shakespeare

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children. — Joan Didion

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. — Muriel Spark

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. — Horace

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. — Cassandra Clare

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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

It also gave me a feeling of vulnerability and mortality which I had not really had before. In — Oliver Sacks

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal. — Frank Herbert

Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero. — Hanya Yanagihara

But there was little heart to our lust,
only the confusion of not knowing
how long we'd have in our bodies. — Joseph Bathanti

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality. — Elizabeth Edwards

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. — Atul Gawande

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point. — Aimee Bender

I'm programmed so that only you two can see my old Aura. Everyone else sees an entirely different guy. Boom. Amazing, I know. — James Dashner

I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product
And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green. — Walt Whitman

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams — Paul C. Nagel

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. — William Dean Howells

Secret of man's Mortality; Man has transformed from immortal to become a mere mortal being all because of our mental love for sex and evil. — Auliq Ice

Mortality, we face by necessity; morality, by virtue. — Esther Mitchell

Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Man is mortal, and as the professor so rightly said mortality can come so suddenly — Mikhail Bulgakov

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. — David A. Bednar

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory — Christopher Hitchens

Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness. — Raquel Cepeda

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God! — Alice Cary

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. — Brian Skerry

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear. — Mother Teresa

We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves. — Marty Rubin

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

As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent. — Randy Alcorn