If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother really put me in touch with not just my mortality but also my baby's mortality. You spent nine months… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...I didn't know the meaning of the word dying until you left me. This last week without you.." He pulls in a… — Samantha Towle Copy Share Image
“As Buddhagosa explained in the Visuddhimagga, nothing solid continues after death, yet one moment of consciousness gives rise to the next. After… — Karma Lekshe Tsomo Copy Share Image
“Niko popped a spare slice of bacon in his mouth, chewing it up contentedly. “I hate being a soul, being dead. You… — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
If darkness wont be there, none will cherish days bright, if there wont be tears , no value had smiles, If death… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“I had survived the plagues of Africa, bullets and near death on the killing field. I’d survived the blade at my neck,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the momotony of bingo and… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
“The secret cause of all suffering,” he said, “is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting… — Pindar Copy Share Image
“Sisyphus cheated death,” Nico explained. “First he chained up Thanatos, the reaper of souls, so no one could die. Then when Thanatos… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“In my late thirties the dream of disappointment and exhaustion had been the dream of the exploding head: the dream of a… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“When Alexander The Great was alive the world was not big enough to contain his ambition but while Alexander chafed at the… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It was the '50s, and the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System were in fashion. I hung out in the 812… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats… — Raymond Briggs Copy Share Image
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches… — Rose of Lima Copy Share Image
It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Then suddenly he beheld his sister Éowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The seeking of a lover to embody these words; the pining for a love that will be unconditional; the search for a… — Daniel Bergner Copy Share Image
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
I know how you feel. I’ve been analyzed to death as well. Not, like, professionally, though I did date a psych major… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“But dying was no drama. Dying was cold and hard and painful, and dull. It went on too long. I was exhausted… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“A great Zen master said just before he died, "From the bathtub, to the bathtub, I have uttered stuff and nonsense." The… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone… — Hal Turner Copy Share Image
When I was running for governor, I was attacked pretty strongly because of my position on the death penalty. But I looked… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
“The whole universe is now an orphanage. But then there's Jesus. When we were still orphans, Christ became a substitute orphan for… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
