I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our… — Max More Copy Share Image
I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our… — Jane Howard Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older and seen people around me evolving and moving on with life, I just have a stronger sense of… — Justin Long Copy Share Image
“When the Root and Branch were young, when the Rose still grew unplucked upon the tree; when all our lands were new… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
It is Christ's atonement that makes it possible for us to be forgiven of our sins and His resurrection that gives us… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray.… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that's handed down from one generation to another, often… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
“I will not stand by and let any man believe his death is an act of one of the gods. They don't… — Katie Hamstead Copy Share Image
If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The duration of our mortality is spent having instances transform us, whether we want them to or not. We're molded into some… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
I'm a leukemia survivor, and I recall during my darkest days in the hospital when my friends would come to see me,… — Lew Temple Copy Share Image
“Man’s mortality is therefore a phenomenon that runs counter to his nature in that it opposes that for which he has been… — Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Copy Share Image
“How shall we live? How to face our mortality? How to live with the knowledge that we are simply life forms, thrown… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate… — Jane Chen Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
“You are like a god, like an immortal one,' she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body pressed… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own… — Ita Buttrose Copy Share Image
“Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
“The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
