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“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.”

Ifs World Years May Mean Two Happens Running Forever Minutes Thousand Hundred Ultimate Eternity Blue Miles Someday Mortality Zero Olympics Ribbons

Author:Stephen King

“War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine”

“Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.”

Men World Way Masters Criticism Silent Mortality Submit Disenchanted Silent Man

Book:Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture

Source: Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture

“Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.”

Ifs Wish Support Pressure Painful Tales Uncertainty Fairy Mortality Fairy Tale Comforting Vivid Hopes And Fears

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.”

Powerful Known Moral Planets Instruments Most Powerful Mortality Tied Rationality Decency Joints Our Planet

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“Nothing is more inspiring in today’s world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying each other’s friendship year in and year out as they experience together the blessings and trials of mortality.”

World Years Today Together Enjoy Wife Blessing Husband Appreciate Trials Mortality Husband And Wife Today's World

Author:Marlin K. Jensen

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

Wind Skins Muscles Mortality

Book:Nightwood

Source: Nightwood

“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.”

People Turns Lines Responsibility Crosses Eternity Claims Philosophical Depth Discussion Realms Mortality Infinity Mystical Truck

Author:David Gilmour

“This gospel has often been spoken of as a way of life. This however is not quite accurate. Consisting as it does of the principles and ordinances necessary to man's exaltation it is not just a way of life, it is the one and only way of life by which men may accomplish the full purpose of their mortality.”

Men Way May Doe Purpose Principles Accomplish Mortality Accurate Exaltation Ordinances

Author:Marion G. Romney

“My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices of others, and some come just because this is mortality. You are His son or His daughter. He made your spirit strong and capable of being resilient to the whirlwinds of life. The whirlwinds in your youth, like the wind against a young tree, can increase your spiritual strength, preparing you for the years ahead.”

Years Made Spiritual Young Spirit Choices Strong Tree Youth Son Wind Capable Daughter Increase Mortality Preparing Resilient Wrong Choices Spiritual Strength Young Friends

Author:Neil L. Andersen

“If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.”

Ifs World Death Religious This World Creating Islamic Mortality Sufi Muslim Deathless Islamic Wisdom

Author:Habib Umar bin Hafiz

“Many of us will not survive our tests in mortality without help from others. And just as true: in helping others we keep our own spirits alive.”

Helping Spirit Alive Tests Helping Others Mortality

Author:Kathleen H. Hughes

“Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.”

“The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.”

Feels Children Seems Humanity Grows Greater Groups Offers Unique Expectations Lifetime Endure Extremes Accepted Immortality Mortality Classroom Communes

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“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.”

Mean Has Beens Dies Accepting Ought Absolutes Philosophical Oneself Philosopher Redemption Acknowledge Outcomes Mortality Resurrection Plato Positive Outcome

Author:Jacques Derrida

“Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.”

Knows Stories Form Joy Know How Tough Connected Faster Mortality Insightful Short Story Brevity

Author:Ali Smith

“Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.”

Years Littles Age Women Imagination Mortality Realising Marching On

Author:Ita Buttrose

“Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.”

Fighting Parent Beats Cancer Mortality Cancer Survivor Turning 30

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.”

Has Beens My Own Cancer Mortality Cancer Survivor

Author:Jodi Rell

“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”

Sex Sleep Conscious Army Mortals Mortality Ancient Greek Warlords

Author:Alexander the Great

“God is a placebo for your own mortality.”

God Mortality Placebo

Author:Robert Barron

“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.”

“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.”

Religion Belief Higher Disease Worship Adults Rate Creator Abortion Mortality Pregnancy Juvenile Homicide Teen Pregnancy

Author:Gregory S. Paul

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.”

Knows Science Universal Claims Mortality Natural Science History Of Science Scientific Theory Universal Truth Great Science

Author:Evelyn Fox Keller

“They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.”

Kind Made Steps Havens Baby Disease Survival Impact Rate Mortality Baby Steps

Author:James Young

“I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality”

Knows Process Church Lord Teaching Taught Doctrine Mortality Permit Providence Sifting

Author:Bruce R. McConkie

“The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly love and care for one another. We sense the importance of these relationships when we realize that our greatest expressions of joy or pain in mortality come from the members of our families”

Care Pain Joy Spirit Parent Realizing Expression Honor Members Importance Sacred Our Family Heavenly Mortality Echoes Commandments Sublime Family Relationship Love And Care Heavenly Love

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee.”

Knows Break One Day Shadow Dawn Mortality Trust In God His Love

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever confront in mortality that the Savior did not experience first. In a moment of weakness we may cry out, “No one knows what it is like. No one understands.” But the Son of God perfectly knows and understands, for He has felt and borne our individual burdens.”

Knows Firsts May Soul Moments Pain Spiritual Individual Felt Cry Son Weakness Burden Wounds Heartache Mortality Savior Anguish Infirmity Physical Pain Moments Of Weakness

Author:David A. Bednar

“Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.”

Ifs May Soul Faces Order Father Challenges Break Return Periods Prove Difficulty Foundation Worthy Surface Heavenly Cracks Mortality Testimony Tested Testing Heavenly Father Embedded

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.”

Joy Return Eternal Eternity Mortality Dedicated Missionary Dividends Missionary Service

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.”

Ifs Life Writing Wells Our Lives Creating Dignity Lawyer Tiny Manage Sand Mortality Good Life Cosmic Scholar Diamond Blink Duration Life Well Lived

Book:Justice for Hedgehogs

Source: Justice for Hedgehogs

“While [the] precious, vital message [of the Restoration] has been proclaimed across the world, Satan has been most effective in causing people to ignore it or to look in the wrong places for it. The vast majority of Father's children have not only forgotten their Father in Heaven and the purpose of mortal life, but they rarely even think of Him nor ponder for what purpose they are here in mortality. They have been led to be absorbed by mundane things that distract them from the essential ones. Don't you make that mistake.”

“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.”

Light Earth Heaven Darkness Meditation Mysterious Immortality Mortality Royal Ladders Attainment Darkness To Light

Author:Sivananda

“I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash course in mortality. You lie awake night after night, wondering if you really believe in heaven and hell and finding all kinds of reasons to cling to faith, because you can't bear to believe they aren't out there somewhere, a few whispered words of a prayer away.”

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

Way Country Mortality Sri Lanka Honduras

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“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.”

Moments Heard Century Fields Wind Hundred Ears Blow Awe Mortality Solemn Saying Nothing

Book:Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de Profundis

Source: Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And Suspiria de Profundis

“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.”

Feelings Used Attitude Son Perspective Selfish Used To Be My Son Mortality

Author:Rufus Sewell

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

Disease Dues Mortality Starvation Malnutrition

Author:Walter Duranty

“We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us.”

Age Father Path Walking Protect Daughter Empowering Heavenly Mortality Covenant Heavenly Father

Author:Rosemary M. Wixom

“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.”

Would Be Kids Dies Dog Comfort Lessons Hated Beloved Damn Classic Kicks Pet Mortality Grandpa Kids Movie Old Yeller

Book:Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel

Source: Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel

“God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.”

Men Growing Envy Bitter Mortality Sympathy Card

Author:Jacques Rigaut

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

Moving Generous Mortality

Author:Lance Loud

“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.”

Years Two Different Helping Able Past Fun Enjoy Player Football Obvious Nfl Help Me Two Years Mortality Quarterback Football Player Playing Football

Author:Ricky Williams

“When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.”

Want Heart Causes Common Weakness Ears Communicate Mortality Allies Confession Head And Heart

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

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

Moments Body Pain Remember My Own Eternal Illusion Embrace Mortality

Author:Maynard James Keenan

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

Men Mean Men And Women Sexuality Mortality

Book:Wing to wing, oar to oar: readings on courting and marrying

Source: Wing to wing, oar to oar: readings on courting and marrying

“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”

People Has Beens Helping Earth Lasts Born Responsibility Tongue Mortality Missionary Privileged Last Day Kindred

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“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?”

“Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.”

Humor Funny Military Logic Increase Math Reasoning Statistics Mortality Wartime

Author:Alphonse Allais

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