Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives...then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
“I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to… — David Carr Copy Share Image
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the moon. It was only a glass because he looked in it. It… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“[A] right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the rush of death, the high of utter nothingness, the fragility of my own mortality. Let it slip… — Kayla Krantz Copy Share Image
“ Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday… — Will Self Copy Share Image
May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality...… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden… — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
“You can’t be close to the mortality of friends without being brought to think of your own.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead” — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
Love is too mighty for humans to handle. It may make you feel invincible, but it will show you your own mortality.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But there was little heart to our lust, only the confusion of not knowing how long we'd have in our bodies.” — Joseph Bathanti Copy Share Image
“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of… — Jose A. Teixeira Copy Share Image
On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image