“ Mortality, and Paternity; the one supposed, the other expressed in the text: Jacob was the Father of Joseph, and that Father dead, and therefore Joseph mourned for him. ”
- John Pearson- Copy
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“ To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ”
- The Bible- Copy
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“ Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief: — We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. ”
- Christina G. Rossetti- Copy
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“ Cats are magical...the more you pet them the longer you both live. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ O Charidas, what of the underworld?Great darkness.And what of the resurrection?A lie.And Pluto?A fable; we perish utterly. ”
- Callimachus- Copy
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“ That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. ”
- George Herbert- Copy
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“ At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ That strain in Asia has caused high mortality in those birds; the birds that tested positive in Quebec and Manitoba are all healthy. ”
- Jim Clark- Copy
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“ This is unprecedented in its scale of mortality. We've been monitoring these sites since 1997 and I've never seen anything this devastating. ”
- Jeff Miller- Copy
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“ The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ”
- William Dean Howells- Copy
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“ We bury with many different emotions. Rarely with intimations of mortality. 'Buried' is the ultimate separation of them and us. As other's lives are often only dreams to us, so also others' deaths. ”
- Josephine Hart- Copy
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“ Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. ”
- M. Russell Ballard- Copy
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“ Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. ”
- Studs Terkel- Copy
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“ Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ”
- R. D. Laing- Copy
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“ Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living. ”
- John Pearson- Copy
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“ The secret cause of all suffering is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed. ”
- Joseph Campbell- Copy
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“ You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven… ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all. ”
- Henry Louis Mencken- Copy
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“ How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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