Mortality Quotes - Page 7

• Ataqué a los dramaturgos occidentales que utilizan su influencia y riqueza para predicar al mundo la doctrina nihilista de que la vida es inútil e irracionalmente destructiva, y que no hay nada que podamos hacer al respecto. Hasta que todo el mundo esté alimentado, vestido, alojado y enseñado, hasta que los seres humanos tengan el mismo tiempo libre para contemplar el hecho abrumador de la mortalidad, no deberíamos (argumenté) permitirnos el lujo de la "desesperación privilegiada".

  Kenneth Tynan

  Complacerse, Lujo, Desesperación

  "Conferencia en Edimburgo (1963)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Libro de Kenneth Tynan, p. 146, 1967.

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• Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.

  John Armstrong

  Pain, Air, Cities

  John Armstrong, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson”, p.25

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• ... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

  Garrison Keillor

  Ridículo

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters”, p.128, Penguin

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• Las comunicaciones semejantes a las de Cristo nos ayudarán a desarrollar relaciones justas y, en última instancia, a regresar sanos y salvos a nuestro hogar celestial. Que atesoremos el don divino de la comunicación, y que lo utilicemos sabiamente para construir y ayudar a los demás en este maravilloso viaje a través de la mortalidad.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Comunicación, Hogar, Viaje

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• If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

  Frank Herbert

  Want, Immortality, Deny

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.377, Penguin

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• We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.

  Federico Lenz

  Power, Immortality, Gates

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• John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he received a fulnesss and thus he was called the Son of God, because he received not of the fulness at the first." Thus is it with us all. We must work out our salvation and exaltation by coming to this earth. Man must be born into mortality and live and die that he may continue in his progress toward eternal life and exaltation.

  Alma P Burton

  Life, Son, Men

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• Las religiones del mundo, a pesar de su parroquialismo, proporcionaron una especie de consuelo para este gran dolor. Este estremecedor reconocimiento de nuestra mortalidad está en la raíz de muchas más enfermedades mentales de las que sospecho que incluso los psiquiatras son conscientes.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Depression, Roots, World

  Entrevista con Eric Nordern, Playboy, septiembre de 1968.

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• 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.

  Margot Adler

  Mean, Dark, Views

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• 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.

  Kathleen H. Hughes

  Helping Others, Alive, Tests

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• Mis jóvenes amigos, ... no todos los torbellinos de la vida son obra vuestra. Algunos vienen por las malas decisiones de otros, y algunos vienen simplemente porque esto es mortalidad. Tú eres Su hijo o Su hija. Él hizo tu espíritu fuerte y capaz de resistir los torbellinos de la vida. Los torbellinos de tu juventud, como el viento contra un árbol joven, pueden aumentar tu fuerza espiritual, preparándote para los años venideros.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Hija, Espiritual, Fuerte

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• Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.

  Mark Helprin

  Dream, Memories, Children

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• 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.

  Marion G. Romney

  Men, Exaltation, Principles

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• 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.

  David Gilmour

  Philosophical, Responsibility, People

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• 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.

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Husband, Blessing, Years

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• It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.

  Jon Krakauer

  Climbing, Glimpse, Stealing

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Aug 23, 2014

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• Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Lúthien Tinúviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Long Ago, Sea, Together

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La escritura narrativa, y quizás toda la escritura, está motivada en el fondo por el miedo y la fascinación por la mortalidad, por el deseo de hacer el arriesgado viaje a los infiernos y traer algo o a alguien de entre los muertos.

  Margaret Atwood

  Escritura, deseo, fascinación

  Margaret Atwood (2002). "Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing", p. 156, Cambridge University Press.

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• Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

  Aphra Behn

  Lying, Enough, Proof

  Aphra Behn (2014). “The Rover: Revised edition”, p.11, A&C Black

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• Ella repartió sus bonitas palabras como cuchillas -- Cuan relucientes brillaron -- Y cada uno desbarató un nervio o deseó con un hueso -- Ella nunca consideró -- ella hirió -- Eso -- no es asunto del acero -- Una vulgar mueca en la carne -- Cuán mal soportan las criaturas -- Dolerse es humano -- no educado -- La película sobre el ojo la vieja costumbre de la mortalidad -- Sólo encerrarse -- para morir.

  Emily Dickinson

  Herir, Ojo, Acero

  Emily Dickinson (2012). "Emily Dickinson: Everyman's Poetry", p.83, Hachette UK.

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• El cambio más sutil en New York es algo de lo que la gente no habla mucho pero que está en la mente de todos. La ciudad, por primera vez en su larga historia, es destructible. Un solo vuelo de aviones no más grande que una cuña de gansos puede acabar rápidamente con esta isla de fantasía, quemar las torres, desmoronar los puentes, convertir los pasadizos subterráneos en cámaras letales, incinerar a los millones de personas. La insinuación de la mortalidad ya forma parte de New York: en el sonido de los aviones sobrevolando la ciudad, en los titulares negros de la última edición. (Escrito en 1949, 22 años antes de que se terminara de construir el World Trade Center).

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Years

  Here Is New York (1949)

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• You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

  Ana Carson

  Doubt, Credit, Divine

  Anne Carson (1999). "Autobiografía de Red: A Novel in Verse", Vintage

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• You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Useless, Realizing

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• 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.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Unique, Expectations

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• Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

  Mother Teresa

  Disappear, Missions, Instruments

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.88, New World Library

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