Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. — Evelyn Fox Keller Copy Share Image
There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
“In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.” — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.” — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“At least when I bleed, it’s my own blood. At least when I fuck up, it’s my own fault. I own my… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer.… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing… — Jane Chen Copy Share Image
“We do our job and go. See? That is what Death is for. We work out all our little brains and all… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
A lot of people are not used to having death in their lives or anything like that and I think that's not… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is a rare blessing to not want to live a second longer than you will live.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image