Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
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.
Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.
To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!
There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.
I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die. " Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas. " And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline. "
Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.
It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is not a dark thing in life; it prepares you for the graceful things that happen in your life. It gives me a license to make any kind of picture I want with great courage.
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.
We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must resist every attempt of Satan to palm off upon us the values that belong to mortality. Nothing less than forever is long enough for us.
There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.