“We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [ Letter, November 1856 ]” — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm… — Peter Pouncey Copy Share Image
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects… — William Falconer Copy Share Image
We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win- What? for ourselves, who know not if… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Same-gender attraction did not exist in the pre-earth life and neither will it exist in the next life. It is a circumstance… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
“Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the moon. It was only a glass because he looked in it. It… — Wallace Stevens 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
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an… — Edward Dunlop Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. — Ian Botham Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
“I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to… — David Carr Copy Share Image
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“You can’t be close to the mortality of friends without being brought to think of your own.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image