Mortality Quotes - Page 13

• He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fall, Liberty, May

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.241, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

  George Santayana

  Death, Evil, Dying

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.174, MIT Press

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• Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.

  Benjamin Rush

  Truth, Ignorance, Convince Us

  "Medical Inquiries and Observations".

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• Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
  But bad mortality o'ersways their power,
  How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
  Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Science, Sea

  Sonnet 65

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• As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of that Holy Man who is literally our Father in heaven. He was born in mortality in the literal and full sense as the Son of God. He is the Son of his father in the same sense that all morals are the sons and daughters of their fathers.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Daughter, Jesus, Father

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• I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

  Winston Churchill

  Baby, Learning, Science

  As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

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• Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

  Leon Kass

  Giving, Accomplishment, Religion

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• Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

  Lauren Kate

  Moving, Stories, Most Romantic

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Rapture: Book 4 of the Fallen Series”, p.421, Random House

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• Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Cancer, Fighting, Parent

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• They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

  James Young

  Baby, Impact, Survival

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• Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Baby, Absence, Immortality

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• In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Pregnancy, Abortion, Religion

  "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies". moses.creighton.edu. 2005.

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• But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering

  Cassandra Clare

  Flames, Made, Brighter

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our limited little egos constitute our whole entire nature. We have failed to recognize our deeper divine character.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.118, A&C Black

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• God is a placebo for your own mortality.

  Robert Barron

  God, Placebo

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• 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

  Needs, Appearance, Stage

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• This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

  Lord Byron

  Mortals

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

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• I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

  Nikki Sixx

  Thinking, Alive, Way

  Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials. When he is disappointed in love, he does not commit suicide. When loved ones die, he doesn’t despair; when he loses a coveted contest, he doesn’t falter; when war and destruction dissipate his future, he doesn’t sink into a depression. He lives above his world and never loses sight of the goal of his salvation.

  Harold B. Lee

  Suicide, War, Sight

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• I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

  Jodi Rell

  Cancer, My Own, Has Beens

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• Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

  Ali Smith

  Joy, Insightful, Stories

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• Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Shadow, One Day, Dawn

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• Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

  Peter Gay

  Men, Criticism, World

  Mark S. Micale, Robert L. Dietle, Peter Gay (2000). “Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture”, p.256, Stanford University Press

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• Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

  Bertrand Russell

  Support, Comforting, Wish

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• Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

  Michael Shermer

  Powerful, Joints, Moral

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.12, Macmillan

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