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Mortality Quotes
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"O Charidas, what of the underworld?"
"Great darkness."
"And what of the resurrection?"
"A lie."
"And Pluto?"
"A fable; we perish utterly."
Author: Callimachus
Source: translated by Macnail in "Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology", also see Callimachus, "Epigrams
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How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a
brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses
it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that
one exists for other people.
Author: Callimachus
Source: translated by Macnail in "Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology", also see Callimachus, "Epigrams
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To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no
less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. IV, The Court Lady)
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That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust
That measures all our time; which also shall
Be crumbled into dust.
Author: George Herbert
Source: The Temple--Church Monuments
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Consider
The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:--
We are as they;
Like them we fade away
As doth a leaf.
Author: Christina G. Rossetti
Source: Consider
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This is the spot where I am mortal.
[Ger., Hier ist die Stelle wo ich sterblich bin.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Don Carlos (I, 6, 67)
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The immortal could we cease to contemplate,
The mortal part suggests its every trait.
God laid His fingers on the ivories
Of her pure members as on smoothed keys,
And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.
Author: Francis Thompson
Source: Her Portrait (st. 7)
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At thirty, man suspects himself a fool,
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;
At fifty, chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,
In all the magnanimity of thought;
Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.
And why? because he thinks himself immortal,
All men think all men mortal but themselves.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night I, l. 417)
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