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
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
“Phoebe asked me, "Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?" I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“Most people give little enough real thought to their own mortality. Oh yes, they gabble on about heaven and the bosom of… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
The most important thing in all this world is that I know that I existed in the preexistence as a spirit child… — Rex D. Pinegar 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… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,” he said. “The inexhaustibility.” “I understand.” “The whole huge nameless thing.” “Yes, absolutely.” “The massive… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
I'm a leukemia survivor, and I recall during my darkest days in the hospital when my friends would come to see me,… — Lew Temple Copy Share Image
“Man’s mortality is therefore a phenomenon that runs counter to his nature in that it opposes that for which he has been… — Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Copy Share Image
“How shall we live? How to face our mortality? How to live with the knowledge that we are simply life forms, thrown… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate… — Jane Chen Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“You are like a god, like an immortal one,' she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body pressed… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
“I will not stand by and let any man believe his death is an act of one of the gods. They don't… — Katie Hamstead Copy Share Image
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The duration of our mortality is spent having instances transform us, whether we want them to or not. We're molded into some… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with… — Timothy B. Schmit 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
