Mortality Quotes - Page 13

• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

  Walt Whitman

  Hug, Trying, Alarms

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.42, Wildside Press LLC

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• Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

  Francesca Gregorini

  Loss, Stories, Madness

  Source: collider.com

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• God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones.

  Edward Dunlop

  Angel, Views, Wings

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• Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Yoga, Love You

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• We really are immortal in the sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using ‘filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.’ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.

  Nicole Brossard

  Memories, Moving, Book

  Nicole Brossard, Larry Shouldice, Patricia Claxton (2003). “The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress”, p.255, Coach House Books

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• No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

  Max More

  Ignorance, Weakness, Holding Back

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• The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Passion, Empathy, Temptation

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• My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

  John Keats

  Death, Sleep, Eagles

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.178

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• You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

  David Gerrold

  Death, Men, Way

  David Gerrold (2011). “The Man Who Folded Himself”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

  Frederick Lenz

  Boredom, Horror, Possibility

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• Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Doe

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• It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously.

  David Cronenberg

  Atheist, Real, Believe

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• Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.

  Liya Kebede

  Risk, Care, Way

  "This Mother’s Day" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality to fulfill the covenant and promise God made to Abraham. We are here upon the earth at this time to magnify the priesthood and to preach the gospel. That is who we are, and that is why we are here - today and always.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Promise, Identity

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• Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

  Leigh Hunt

  Growing Up, Children, Blessed

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.1782, Delphi Classics

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• Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality,
  Or modest anger of a satiric spirit,
  That hurts or wounds the body of a state,
  But the sinister application
  Of the malicious, ignorant, and base
  Interpreter; who will distort and strain
  The general scope and purpose of an author
  To his particular and private spleen.

  Ben Jonson

  Hurt, Ignorant, Criticism

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• Think not I dread to see my spirit fly,
  Through the dark gates of fell mortality;
  Death has no terrors when the life is true;
  'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dark, Thinking, Spirit

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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• I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament...Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .

  John Hancock

  Memories, Men, Knowing

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• In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

  Indira Gandhi

  Anxiety, Alive, Firsts

  Indira Gandhi (1984). “Selected speeches and writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-October 30, 1984”

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• It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Thinking, Iron

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.317

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• knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Giving, Greatest Gifts

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. . . . The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality.

  Harold Bloom

  Education, Reality, Self

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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