Listening to others Quote by Francis Fernandez

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

— John Owen

“With each passing minute, I’m developing a deeper appreciation of the word mortified,”

— John Green

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

— John Owen

“In measured doses, mortification cleanses the soul. It's the perfect antidote for excessive self-regard.”

— Andrew J. Bacevich

... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere…

— August Sander

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

The mortician interviewing the corpses

— Eugene McCarthy

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”

— William Shakespeare

“What is most mortifying of all is that it is chance - simply a barbarous, lagging chance. That is what is mortifying! Five minutes,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“For the real movements of a life are gradual, then sudden; they resist becoming anecdotes, they pulse like quasars from long-dead stars to reach…

— Edmund White

“Death does that:It makes everyone feel sentimental when in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón