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
“Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
True unconditional love tears through the frail fabric of mortality. Life can come and go as quick as the wind, but love… — Gregory E Sapp Copy Share Image
Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“We do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday parties.” — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you're dead. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and… — Laurence Fox Copy Share Image
“Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.” — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries… — William Davis Copy Share Image
“Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
