Until having kids, I had never really thought about mortality so much. — James Mercer Copy Share Image
“Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust. — Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden Copy Share Image
“The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
My brother's death does make me think about mortality, although I've had so many close scrapes with the children issue. — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“Get used to your mortality. It will eventually consume you so why not pick up an addiction.” — Pamela August Russell Copy Share Image
“The things that frighten us most are those that remind us of our fragile existence” — Sumiko Saulson Copy Share Image
“I knew the end would come, one day. I knew my life deserved to be over. Yet, even knowing that, I was… — Stacie Evans Copy Share Image
When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
“Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...… — Plato Copy Share Image
No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition,… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
“Let not the rash marble risk garrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence, in many words recalling name, renown, events, birthplace. All those glass… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life—a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple—the painter is giving you… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seemed as if he'd always been very old. People said that time lasted for ever when you were young. That… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Christian's family lived under the shadow cast by his parents. They had purposely become Striogi, trading thier magic and mortality to become… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course,… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Honestly, most of us can face almost anything except our own mortality. — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
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