I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We… — William Godwin 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
“Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,… — William Knox Copy Share Image
If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt,… — Ernest Becker 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 mortality of those who dig minerals is very great, and women who marry men of this sort marry again and again.… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
I mean, it's hard to talk about death without realizing that's our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death. It's… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we… — Mitch Albom 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
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my arm, the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he… — Alma P Burton Copy Share Image
“This is mortality: to move along a rectilinear line in a universe where everything, if it moves at all, moves in a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the… — Alan D. Eames Copy Share Image
I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our… — Max More Copy Share Image
A Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ's example in her daily living begins to fulfill the plan of our Heavenly Father for… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our… — Jane Howard Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older and seen people around me evolving and moving on with life, I just have a stronger sense of… — Justin Long Copy Share Image
I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that's handed down from one generation to another, often… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events,… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health… — Abel Aganbegyan Copy Share Image
