Quotes for All
I don’t mean to say that you shouldn’t take care of your body, or want to keep it from dying. But it doesn’t have the same hold as when you totally identify yourself as the body. To recognize the tenderness of mortality, the fragility of your life form and all life forms, including cosmic life … Read more
I’m a student of history and know that civilizations get lost – they are born and die – and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I’m not saying I’m separate from the despair of that, but I’m not controlled by the despair of that. Gangaji
Since the beginning, a woman’s first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven. Ezra Taft Benson
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. Evelyn Fox Keller
Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much. Euripides
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience. Euripides
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 our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself. Ernest Becker
All power is in essence power to deny mortality. Ernest Becker
Man’s natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. Ernest Becker
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world’s population is airborne … Read more