Mortality Quotes - Page 5

• I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mirrors, Hatred, Age

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming good. And the Atonement provides help for us to overcome and avoid bad and to do and become good. Help from the Savior is available for the entire journey of mortality - from bad to good to better and to change our very nature.

  David A. Bednar

  Journey, Overcoming, Becoming

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• Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

  David A. Bednar

  Law, Progress, Eternity

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• My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.

  William J. Clinton

  Memories, Father, Should Have

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• We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Spring, Thinking, Stronger

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Gratitude, Journey, Giving

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• I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Blow, Wind, Ears

  Thomas De Quincey (1852). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de Profundis”, p.175

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• Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more, Vomitest thy wrecks on its inhospitable shore, Treacherous in calm, and terrible in storm, Who shall put forth on thee, Unfathomable sea?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ocean, Years, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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• The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner... The very prospect of effective treatment seems so remote that it doesn't even enter into the speculative day-to-day conversation of people engaged in cancer research... New treatments have not produced any detectable decline in the total annual cancer mortality, even for children.

  John Cairns

  Children, Cancer, Men

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• Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Life, Wise, Business

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• We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

  Hideo Kojima

  Years, Facts, Turns

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• A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Country, Sri Lanka, Way

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• My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

  Rufus Sewell

  Attitude, Selfish, Son

  "Rufus Sewell: 'Hollywood is my domestic idyll'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.

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• There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

  Walter Duranty

  Disease, Starvation, Malnutrition

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• 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

  Giving, Depth, Granted

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• I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.

  Merrill Markoe

  Dog, Kids, Grandpa

  Merrill Markoe (2006). “Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel”, p.208, Villard

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• God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

  Jacques Rigaut

  Men, Envy, Growing

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• I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

  Lance Loud

  Moving, Generous

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• I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Fun, Past

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• Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

  Leon Kass

  Mean, Men, Sexuality

  Amy A. Kass, Leon Kass (2000). “Wing to wing, oar to oar: readings on courting and marrying”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality. ... We have been privileged to be born in these last days, as opposed to some earlier dispensation, to help take the gospel to all the earth

  Howard W. Hunter

  Responsibility, People, Missionary

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• This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
  Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal
  all this pain is an illusion.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Pain, Body, Remember

  "Song: 'Parabola'". 2002.

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• Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?

  John Henry Newman

  Faith, Brother, Rights

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• No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Greatness

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.172, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

  Sivananda

  Light, Meditation, Heaven

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