Mortality Quotes - Page 21

• Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.

  Ita Buttrose

  Women, Years, Marching On

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• Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

  Kohta Hirano

  People, Humanity, Gains

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• The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Children, Fall

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• 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, Fighting, Hygiene

  "Three Cups of Tea". Book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 2007.

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• There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.

  Dorothy Allison

  Believe, Healing, Literature

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sleep, Thinking, Flesh

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.472, Simon and Schuster

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• At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

  Edward Young

  Success, Procrastination, Men

  'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 417

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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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• During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.

  Melissa Bank

  Inspirational, Distance, Cancer

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• You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

  Joseph Conrad

  Hate, Lying, World

  Joseph Conrad (2006). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.48, Collector's Library

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• May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Love, Truth, Heart

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• To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

  Evelyn Fox Keller

  Science, Claims, Universal Truth

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

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Meaning Of Life, Limits, Possibility

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• You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.

  Harold B. Lee

  Opportunity, Youth Of Today, Our Generation

  Harold B. Lee (1973). “Youth & the church”

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• The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

  Tanith Lee

  Lying, Joy, Lasts

  Christian Dörge (Illustrator), Tanith Lee (2016). “DELUSION'S MASTER (Special Edition)”, p.189, BookRix

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• For nothing is evil in the beginning.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Evil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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