“Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.” — Adam B. Ford Copy Share Image
Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
“We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives...then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Without time, you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity…Time is what gives life significance.” — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
I've always written towards movies that take place across two worlds. Most of the movies that I've worked on take place in… — John August 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
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general… — Samuel Johnson 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
“Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man,… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Take a Somalian toddler. She has a 20% probability of dying before reaching the age of five. Now compare: American frontline soldiers… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The idea of flux, kind of constant change, whether it be our sense of time or geological time or cosmic time. It's… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality. — Russell M. Nelson 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
“What in hell was mortality? Shitting, pissing, eating, and then the same cycle all over again!” — Anne Rice 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
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of… — Jose A. Teixeira Copy Share Image
“But there was little heart to our lust, only the confusion of not knowing how long we'd have in our bodies.” — Joseph Bathanti Copy Share Image
... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
