“On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done” DoneRunningSingingEternitySeedsMortalityFluidAlteredBud Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don't want to die!” WorldWantTwoDiesFallWalksExistenceRocksMassEternityDeeperForestsDustComparisonMortalityFleetingTombsMarbleDiggingWanting To DieCrumbling Author:Denis Diderot
“Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer. And God expects and trusts us to face temporary mortal adversity with His help so we can learn what we need to learn and ultimately become what we are to become in eternity.” NeedsSometimesHelpingFacesSufferingLessonsEternityAdversityMortalsMortalityTemporary Author:David A. Bednar
“Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?” WantMindSoulBodySpiritDesireDiesBeliefForeverSurvivalEternityWingsMortalityContractsCravingDeludedClausesGreatest FearYou Can WinHmmOur Greatest Fear Author:Dan Millman
“I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?” ShouldWellsBookAgeHeavenBrainStudyFameEternityFilledDelightRichesMortalsMortalityAnxiousShould IChamberArchangel Author:William Blake
“When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and societal meanings - religious, legal, sexual - encompassing mortality and sin and family and eternity.” ThinkingReligiousSinExampleConceptsEternityMedicalMortalityInfertility Author:Monica Youn
“Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.” LawProgressEternityIncreaseObedienceMortalityChastityChastity Purity Author:David A. Bednar
“There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.” UltimateEternityMortalityZero Book:Skeleton Crew Source: Skeleton Crew
“It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.” IfsWorldYearsMayMeanTwoHappensRunningForeverMinutesThousandHundredUltimateEternityBlueMilesSomedayMortalityZeroOlympicsRibbons Author:Stephen King
“Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.” PeopleTurnsLinesResponsibilityCrossesEternityClaimsPhilosophicalDepthDiscussionRealmsMortalityInfinityMysticalTruck Author:David Gilmour
“Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.” JoyReturnEternalEternityMortalityDedicatedMissionaryDividendsMissionary Service Author:Thomas S. Monson