Our Mortality Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
— Roger Caras
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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…
— Ronald Dworkin
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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…
— John Henry Newman
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We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.
— Hideo Kojima
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The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our…
— Sam Keen
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The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like…
— R. J. Palacio
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Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness,…
— Alan D. Eames
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If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even…
— Ernest Becker
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Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
— Ben Jonson
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We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands,
— Ronald Dworkin
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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…
— Max More
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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…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our…
— Will Self
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Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many…
— Mitch Albom
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The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at…
— Stanley Kubrick
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Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long…
— Jane Howard
Who Wrote These Our Mortality Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Our Mortality Quotes as follows: