Mortality Quotes - Page 3

• O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.

  Callimachus

  Lying, Darkness, World

  "Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology". Book by John William Mackail, p. 171, Epigram 14, 1906.

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• Philosophy is the art of dying.Philosophy is an activity that has always been concerned with how one seizes hold of one's mortality, and I see myself continuing a very ancient tradition that goes back to Socrates and Epicurus, which is that to be a philosopher is to try and learn how to die. In learning how to die, one learns how to live.

  Simon Critchley

  Art, Philosophy, Dying

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• Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

  Seneca the Younger

  Moments, Appearance, Our Lives

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• The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.

  William C. Bryant

  Art, Gay, Laughing

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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

  Ian Botham

  Faces, Moments, Evidence

  Ian Botham (2017). “Botham: My Autobiography”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

  Hafez

  Hope, Wine, Fabric Of Life

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• To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Ambition, Fighting, Suffering

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• Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

  Alphonse Allais

  Funny, Military, Humor

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• Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

  Martial

  Accomplishment, Age, Praying

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• To contemplation's sober eye,
  Such is the race of man;
  And they that creep, and they that fly,
  Shall end where they began,
  Alike the busy and the gay,
  But flutter through life's little day.

  Thomas Gray

  Eye, Gay, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.251

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• We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Taken, Victory

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• For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

  Hesiod

  Night, Men, Race

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• Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

  Euripides

  Life, Alas

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• Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Death

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• Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.

  William Shakespeare

  Remember, Speak, Ends

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”

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• Cheat me not with time,
  with the dull ache of flesh,
  for all flesh turns,
  even the loveliest
  ankle and frail thigh,
  to bitterest dust.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Time, Dust, Ankles

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.287, New Directions Publishing

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• If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Death, Religious, Islamic

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• In your 20s, crises tend to be about whether you are making the correct decisions for the rest of your life, namely in your job and relationship. In your 30s, work-related issues and break-ups feature prominently. In your 40s, for women bereavement is often an issue. For men, it is still to do with their job but it has moved to "Holy crap, I've got a lot to do". In your 50s, you get features of both early and later life crises - bereavement and ill health. And that continues in your 60s, with retirement-related issues and heightened awareness of mortality.

  Oliver Robinson

  Men, Decision, Awareness

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

  Alice Walker

  Death, Inspirational Life, Believe

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

  Sara Blakely

  Thinking, Numbers

  "How Sara Blakely of Spanx Turned $5,000 into $1 billion" by Clare O'Connor, www.forbes.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Home, Fighting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

  Alexander the Great

  Sex, Sleep, Army

  "Alexander the Great". Book by Robin Lane Fox, 1973.

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• An important purpose for mortality is to help us learn to recognize and to choose the positive even though the negative more fully surrounds us. We make this choice consciously or unconsciously in every moment of the day, and these millions of tiny choices create the foundation of our identity. We are what we think. We are what we say, what we do, what we fill our lives with. Ultimately, every being creates himself by these countless, crucial choices.

  Betty Eadie

  Thinking, Choices, Identity

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

  Atul Gawande

  School, Medical, Medical School

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.7, Metropolitan Books

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• Let mortal man keep to his own
  Mortality, and not expect too much.

  Euripides

  Men, Too Much, Mortals

  Euripides “Alcestis, a story of love”, Lulu.com

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