I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl…

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

— Edward Hirsch

As I've gotten older and seen people around me evolving and moving on with life, I just have a stronger sense of my own…

— Justin Long

What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it…

— Bill Henson

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

— Lee Unkrich

I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister.

— Peter Hedges

“As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath- no: as one presses it against a wound out of which the whole of life, in a…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine…

— Tana French

My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow…

— William J. Clinton

It's about being in a race with time - just having a strong sense of mortality, and the idea of, How much time do…

— Joe Frank

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

— Marcel Proust

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

— Roger Moore

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more…

— Richard Branson

Laugh, I Nearly Died," Andrew answers. "You've probably never heard that one before.

— J.A. Redmerski

I sufffered, I cried, I bled, I nearly died. But all you did was turn around, ignore, forget, and lied

— Alex Espitia

When I nearly died it made me think – this can happen again any second. I better hurry and do what I want. I…

— Curtis Jackson