I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality. — James McAvoy 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
“The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only… — C.G. Jung 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
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“If one wishes to be instructed--not that anyone does--concerning the treacherous role that memory plays in a human life, consider how relentlessly… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The song is an unvarnished love shout, an implorement tinged with...anger? Something like anger, but the anger of a philosoher, the anger… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them—not one—has a soul. They wander through their lives separate and alone, unable… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and… — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
“I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees… — James Balog Copy Share Image
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest,… — Martial Copy Share Image
“All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is… — Audrey Auden Copy Share Image
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