A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored… — Paul Farmer 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
“That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which… — Daniel Alarcón Copy Share Image
The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“I was not like them. Are you not? The voice was my uncle's, resonant and deep. Then you must think, Circe. What… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust. — Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden Copy Share Image
When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
“Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“The people who are best at dying are the people who got really good at being alive.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled… — Ambrose Bierce 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
Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening. — Sam Taylor-Johnson 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
