“Mortality shadowed him like a falcon mantling its wings over dying prey.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Everybody dies." I said. "Mortality is the constant that defines our existence.” — K. J. Parker Copy Share Image
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When someone so close to you dies, you do think of your own mortality. — Coleen Nolan Copy Share Image
“Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. — Alphonse Allais Copy Share Image
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own… — Lisle Von Rhuman 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
Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“You're sitting there vibrating with 'talent' while the swine are out there eating the crop! Potential is for weaklings and politicians! It… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Nothing is more inspiring in today’s world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying… — Marlin K. Jensen Copy Share Image
We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life,… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
“The decision to be positive is not one that disregards or belittles the sadness that exists. It is rather a conscious choice… — Christopher Aiff Copy Share Image
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner...… — John Cairns Copy Share Image
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
