Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.
The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.
When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.
There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.
If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.
Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future.
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.
NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171100,000 in 1984 to 175100,000 by the year 2000!
. . . life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.
Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA. . . and less expensive too.
In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!
I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die. " Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas. " And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline. "
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?