Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. ”

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. ”

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words. ”

The mechanics of love imply some sort of bridge between the sensual and the spiritual, sometimes to the point of deification; the notion of an afterlife is implicit not only in our couplings, but also in our separations. ”

For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.' ”

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 the temptations of earthly appetites and passions. ”

Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father. ”

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. ”

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ”

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life. ”