For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love. — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer… — Gertrude Diamant Copy Share Image
In Sweden for example people with PhDs have lower mortality than those with a masters degree. And people with a masters degree… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?” — Justin Taylor Copy Share Image
It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When you see magazine articles and you go, 'Oh my God, that one looks so old or look how fat someone is'… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Every nation ends and every empire. Every baby born was going to die, given enough time. If being fated for destruction were… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
I think the first general point to make from epidemiological studies across millions of people is the following - that short sleep… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
“Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is. If there is such a thing as wisdom, and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
An important purpose for mortality is to help us learn to recognize and to choose the positive even though the negative more… — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“Mortality is the time to learn first of God and the gospel and to perform the ordinances. After our feet are set… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
True unconditional love tears through the frail fabric of mortality. Life can come and go as quick as the wind, but love… — Gregory E Sapp Copy Share Image
“I do not understand how you know you only have one life if you have never died, because if you have never… — Cassandra Kemper Copy Share Image
The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Case fatality is defined as the proportion of patients with the disease who die, whereas mortality, a population-based measure, is defined as… — Marya Zilberberg Copy Share Image
“If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones… — Sheri L. Dew 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
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
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
![“[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis…” quote by Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7c1/wendell-berry-236_america_all-the-ancient-wisdom-tells-us-that-wor_1212112.jpg)
