Quotes by Mortality Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience. Euripides alasmortalitylife Let mortal man keep to his own Euripides mortalitytoo-muchmen The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality. Frances Lear mortalityreasonmen 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. Frank Herbert mortalitydemiseends ... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty. Garrison Keillor mortalityridiculous I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that. Gangaji mortalitydespairstudents I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. Gary Shteyngart mortalitygrowing-upthinking That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. George Herbert mortalitydustflesh Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future. Gordon B. Hinckley mortalityexistencestones There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration. Gretel Ehrlich mortalitynaturetaken We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old. Hideo Kojima mortalityfactsyears For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. Ian Botham mortalitymomentsfaces The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. Horace mortalitymenyears For nothing is evil in the beginning. J. R. R. Tolkien mortalityevil It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality. J. K. Rowling mortalityimmortalitystrive We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it. Jeffrey R. Holland mortalityappearanceneeds I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer. Jodi Rell mortalitycancermy-own Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality. John Elway mortalityreachingage There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies. Joseph Conrad flavourmortalitylying What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? Jorge Luis Borges mortalityformworld«12345»
