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And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes.(Quote by - Kurt Vonnegu)


I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. (Quote by - M Russell Ballard)


O Charidas, what of the underworld? "Great darkness." "And what of the resurrection?" "A lie." "And Pluto?" "A fable; we perish utterly." (Quote by - Callimachus)


All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.(Quote by - Bible)


A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.(Quote by - Laurence Sterne)


But shapes that come not at an earthly call Will not depart when mortal voices bid.(Quote by - William Wordsworth)


Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. (Quote by - Christina G. Rossetti)


Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave.(Quote by - William Knox)


The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.(Quote by - William Wordsworth)


The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.(Quote by - Walter Lippmann)


Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. (Quote by - Alcee Hastings)


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. (Quote by - Callimachus)


Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children. (Quote by - Jane Howard)


Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.(Quote by - William Shakespeare)


Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.(Quote by - William Wordsworth)



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