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
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Shall a man grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on the water? Nay, oh… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
“We will lost everything that matters, or everything that matters will lose us. It is predestined, the nature of life.” — Steven Rowley 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
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly… — Dallin H. Oaks 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
Getting older has compensations, though when you hit 50 you become very aware of your own mortality and it makes you reassess. — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“Let not the rash marble risk garrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence, in many words recalling name, renown, events, birthplace. All those glass… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition,… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?” — Justin Taylor Copy Share Image
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon… — Eric Pianka Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the rush of death, the high of utter nothingness, the fragility of my own mortality. Let it slip… — Kayla Krantz Copy Share Image
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image