You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
When I look upon the faces of intelligent beings I look upon the image of the God I serve. There are none… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
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Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
“...A mirror can trick you day by day into thinking you remain looking and existing in one way forever. But a photograph… — Kels Adeline Sapp Copy Share Image
We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“it is a valuable lesson that should often be reinforced—that many who are faced with impending death, a disease that will likely… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
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“people eat right and exercise to preserve their lives, others drink and do drugs daring fate to take theirs, and then there… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality.… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
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Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and… — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest,… — Martial Copy Share Image
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I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which… — Daniel Alarcón Copy Share Image
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars -… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
“...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and… — Missouri Williams Copy Share Image
It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
All that I can say is that we are spending far more per capita than people in any other country, and our… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
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