Mortality Quotes - Page 8

• While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of mortality alone, we're doing it all wrong. Mortality is a test, but it is an open book test. We have access not only to the divine text but to Him who authored it.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Book, Challenges, Twists

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• I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

  Rick Riordan

  Way, Faces, Revelations

  "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. May 1, 2008.

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• There is nothing serious in Mortality

  William Shakespeare

  Serious

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]

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• I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Odds

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• Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Father, Son, Keys

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• Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brother, Pain, Men

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking.

  Mark Helprin

  Love, Laughter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones who set limits--through our neglect our disobedience or ignorance. We are in large measure the ones who determine what we will learn and experience in mortality, and what we will receive eternally.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Ignorance, Giving, Limits

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• Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die.

  Jacques Derrida

  Plato, Philosophical, Mean

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• Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

  Bodhidharma

  Mean, Awareness, Delusion

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

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• There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Nature, Taken

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• As ye of clay were cast by kind,
  So shall ye waste to dust.

  Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

  Dust, Clay, Waste

  Thomas Vaux, “The Aged Lover Renounceth Love”

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• I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in thetreatent, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Believe, Long, Shining

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

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• I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Death, Bad Ass

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.783, Penguin

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• I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Heart, Thinking, Eggs

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• No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.

  E. O. Wilson

  Prayer, Religion, World

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.364, Vintage

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• Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones.

  Sue Grafton

  Loved Ones, Fine, Notion

  Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.68, Penguin

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• ... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.

  Gertrude Diamant

  People, Understanding, Suffering

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• Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happy Life, Perfect, Virtue

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• The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.

  Matt Ridley

  Average, Years, Mexican

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• It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

  Susanna Clarke

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.681, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.

  William Boyd

  Common Humanity, Kitchen, Spy

  William Boyd (2009). “Restless”, p.278, A&C Black

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• Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement? The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably; not one of them is translated. True, "not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our Heavenly Father's knowledge," but they do fall, nevertheless.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Lying, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.236

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• I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is madeand at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom and float whither it would bear me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Law, Progress

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• This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

  Saint Augustine

  Beautiful, Morning, Order

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