Mortality Quotes - Page 4

• I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, Children, Thinking

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

  Robert Breault

  Needs, Arms, Lord

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• The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, it’s coming to an end. Once you accept there’s nothing that you can do about your own mortality, then you’re now free. You have no control, so stop pretending you do. And just get on with living your life. Stop living in fear.

  Jeb Corliss

  Reality, Live Your Life, Matter

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• Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short that we can do it. We can prevail. Why, you can stand your foot in a vise for a while if you know it's going to be released soon. Yes, earthly probation is short compared to eternity, but so very much is riding on how we handle the trials and temptations of the flesh.

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Art, Reality, Feet

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• The idea of flux, kind of constant change, whether it be our sense of time or geological time or cosmic time. It's always there, and I think that maybe it's a way of dealing with the idea of mortality, trying to acknowledge the fact that all things change, and whereas, maybe death is the end of one state of being it's the beginning of something else. I'm not talking about going to heaven or being reincarnated as a toad, I'm talking about the idea that the molecules in our bodies, or at least the atoms, were here at the beginning of the universe, and the sense that we are basically matter.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Thinking, Heaven, Trying

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Yea, when mortality dissolves,  Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens  Is lighted by the smile of God!

  Alice Cary

  House, Heaven, Hours

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• To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!

  Emily Dickinson

  Simple, Needs, May

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

  Brandon Boyd

  Beautiful, Mean, Thinking

  "MH Grill: Brandon Boyd". Interview with Benjamin Palfreyman, www.menshealth.co.uk. July 7, 2012.

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• I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

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• When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Law, Forever

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.442

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• Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Mean, People

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• Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

  John Elway

  Age, Reaching, My Own

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• All that in this world is great or gay,
  Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

  Edmund Spenser

  Gay, Decay, World

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• What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  World, Form, Fragile

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.243, New Directions Publishing

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• For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

  David Cronenberg

  Reality, Self, Mind

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

  Ben Jonson

  Truth, Men, Use

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.746

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• The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

  Robert Fagles

  Heart, Tears, World

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• Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.

  Mehmet Oz

  Thinking, Hours, Increase

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 20, 2012.

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• Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

  LeCrae

  Names, Dirt, Return

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• What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for love of us, defies reason. It is so wild that it terrifies some Christians who try to dogmatize their fear by lashing out at other Christians, because tidy Christianity with all answers given is easier than one which reaches out to the wild wonder of God's love, a love we don't even have to earn.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Believe, Broken

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• As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

  Alan Ball

  Other Cultures, Want, Way

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• We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

  Djuna Barnes

  Wind, Skins, Muscles

  Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.67, Faber & Faber

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• We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.

  Paul Auster

  Fate, Men, Long

  Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.182, Macmillan

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• Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.

  Denise Levertov

  Pain, White, Knowing

  1972 Footprints,'The Malice of Innocence'.

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• We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

  Tom Stoppard

  One Direction, Intuition, Compass

  "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead". www.imdb.com. 1990.

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