Mortality quotes

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◆ Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

- Albert Camus100

◆ When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box

- Italian Proverb100

◆ Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass, the earth, into the second, eternity.

- Margaret George99

◆ What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning.

- Walker Percy99

◆ It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough

- Albert Camus99

◆ You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --

- Victor Hugo99

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

- Henry Louis Mencken99

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

- Tom Stoppard99

◆ In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

- Thomas S Monson99

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

- R D Laing99

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

- Leon Kass99

◆ God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick99

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

- Alphonse Allais99

◆ If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.

- Ernest Hemingway99

◆ The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

- William Dean Howells99