Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my… — John Milton 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
“What is life without death, Beneficent? You of all people can answer that question. A never-ending orgy of emptiness that you stuff… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a… — Seneca the Younger 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
It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. — George Herbert 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
“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
I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an… — Edward Dunlop Copy Share Image
“When men shake hands with time, time crushes Them like tumblers; little pieces of glass.” — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri Copy Share Image
Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life,… — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
