A Quote by William Shakespeare

There is nothing serious in Mortality

William Shakespeare

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Mortality Nothing Serious

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.

William Shakespeare

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Paul Tsongas

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

Michael Marmot

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

Edward Zwick

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

Gretel Ehrlich

I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

Eckhart Tolle

The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

Zygmunt Bauman

American hypocrisy consists of thinking that everything is serious; French hypocrisy is to think that nothing is serious.

Isabelle Adjani

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

Sarah Hall

Becoming a mother really put me in touch with not just my mortality but also my baby's mortality. You spent nine months working on this thing, and it's finally there, and the first thing you think about is, 'I don't want my child to die.'

Zoe Buckman

You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.

Angus Deaton

With pain, as long as you know it's nothing super serious or nothing is structurally wrong, you start getting used to it.

Demaryius Thomas

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Berkeley Breathed

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.