Quotes About Mortem

#1. Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

Finley Peter Dunne

#2. In the field of letters, as apart from medicine and science, professors do not lead but follow. Their wisdom is always that of a post-mortem. They

Stephen Leacock

#3. Death when to death a death by death hath given
Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven.
[Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

Thomas Heywood

#4. To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Ronald Fisher

#5. To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Ronald Fisher

#6. Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.
The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Seneca The Younger

#7. The dark organ music filled the Department of Post-Mortem Communications. Moist assumed it was all part of the ambience, although the mood would have been more precisely obtained if the tune it was playing did not appear to be Cantate and Fugue for someone Who Has Trouble with the Pedals.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Reducing human beings to the faint after-image of some omnipotent deity, or trying to give human life meaning by postponing real fulfilment to some post-mortem paradise ... can actually threaten to rob real life of its meaningfulness.

British Humanist Association

#9. My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.

Henry James

#10. The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

Annie Besant

#11. But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

Alphonse De Lamartine

#12. Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.

Charlie Jane Anders

#13. What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#14. The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?"
I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.

Theresa Breslin

#15. When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

Mac O'Grady

#16. I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.

Ming-Na Wen

#17. Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

Francis Crick

#18. Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.

Gwen Cooper