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
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
The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality… — Rose George Copy Share Image
When you see magazine articles and you go, 'Oh my God, that one looks so old or look how fat someone is'… — RuPaul 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
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
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to… — Peter Stillman Copy Share Image
Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
“✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.” — David L Lloyd Copy Share Image
Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming?” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer. — Jodi Rell Copy Share Image
You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Pregnancies spaced too closely together lead to increased rates of infant mortality. — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
