Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Think not, O Mortal, vainly gay. That Thou from Human Woes is free, The bitter cup I drink today, Tomorrow may be… — Jane Grey 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
Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
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
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to… — Lance Armstrong 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
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000! — Samuel Epstein 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
Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching… — Leonard Nimoy 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
Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It… — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. — Robert Breault 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
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
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