Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's… — Francesca Gregorini Copy Share Image
There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition. — Walter Duranty Copy Share Image
“...you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on. — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
“They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“This sadness is one of the great trials of the human experiment. As far as we know, we are the only species… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“We may like to combat disease or even want to cure death. We may try to surf on the waves of infinity… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“Over the years, I have developed a visceral reaction to families and victims expressing surprise at tragedy. Why are we surprised? Why… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It… — Hartman Rector, Jr Copy Share Image
Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface -… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death. — Habib Umar bin Hafiz Copy Share Image
“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
