Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. ”

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death. ”

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ”

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. ”

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. ”

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? ”

The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death. ”

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised. ”

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life. ”

Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death. ”