Mortality Quotes - Page 11

• Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall
  die.

  William Shakespeare

  Certain, Dies

  1597-8 Shallow. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.2, l.35-6.

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• I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

  William Blake

  Book, Heaven, Brain

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• In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Longing, Schemes, Righteous

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• Now is the time to become a disciple of Jesus Christ, which means accepting His invitation to 'come, follow me' (Luke 18:22). This is the decision we made in our premortal lives. Now we must make it again here in mortality, every day, in every situation by taking the Savior's name upon us, remembering His atoning sacrifice, and keeping His commandments. This we covenanted to do when we were baptized, and we have the opportunity to renew those covenants each week as we partake of the sacrament.

  Robert D. Hales

  Jesus, Mean, Sacrifice

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• There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Flavour, Heart Of Darkness

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in the world? And I thought about it enough that I'm no longer worried about it. I'm not... I don't worry about what's gonna happen in my life. I don't worry about telling me about dying, my own mortality. That's a given.

  Walter Mosley

  Careers, Worry, Dying

  Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Practice, Two

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

  Anne Rice

  Animal, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of people are not used to having death in their lives or anything like that and I think that's not incredibly natural either. So it definitely can take its toll. At the same time I think it's important to face your own mortality, which I do most every day by doing the show, to realize that your life is short and to take the opportunities that you need to take and be fearless.

  Emily Deschanel

  Life Is Short, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Emily Deschanel Talks Bones: Season 2". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 26, 2007.

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• Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Men, Needs

  "Birth of a Surgeon". "Wide Ange" with Aaron Brown, www.pbs.org. July 15, 2008.

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• Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Silence, Trying

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.

  Andre Dubus

  Philosophy, Thinking, Simple

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality. But it's been so much fun! It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

  Deborah Meier

  Giving Up, Fun, Differences

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• Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Science, Problem

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• Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Responsibility, Epidemics

  "The Hoover Policies". Book by Ray Lyman Wilbur and Arthur N. Hyde, 1937.

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• Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Self, Helping, Sufi

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• More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  People, Childhood, Imagine

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

  Epicurus

  Understanding, Add, Body

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• For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

  Phil Elvrum

  And Love, Reason, Destruction

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament...Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .

  John Hancock

  Memories, Men, Knowing

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• Think not I dread to see my spirit fly,
  Through the dark gates of fell mortality;
  Death has no terrors when the life is true;
  'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dark, Thinking, Spirit

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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• Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

  Francesca Gregorini

  Loss, Stories, Madness

  Source: collider.com

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• Fear holds dominion over mortality
  Only because, seeing in land and sky
  So much the cause whereof no wise they know,
  Men think Divinities are working there.

  Lucretius

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1921). “Lucretius: Of the Nature of Things”

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• Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

  John Robbins

  Cancer, Successful, Data

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

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• When I look upon the faces of intelligent beings I look upon the image of the God I serve. There are none but what have a certain portion of divinity within them; and though we are clothed with bodies which are in the image of our God, yet this mortality shrinks before that portion of divinity which we inherit from our Father.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Intelligent, Looks

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