“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Most people, including many Jews, think of Yom Kippur as a 25-hour caffeine headache capped off by a lox-and-bagels binge. It's undeniably… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through… — Peter Steele 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
Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of… — Simon Schama 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
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
While [the] precious, vital message [of the Restoration] has been proclaimed across the world, Satan has been most effective in causing people… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, it’s coming to an end. Once you accept there’s nothing… — Jeb Corliss Copy Share Image
“We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I wasn't prepared for death. Nobody is. You lose someone you love more than you love yourself, and you get a crash… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't want people to be afraid of health or illness or mortality, because it's a natural part of life. — Suzy Nakamura Copy Share Image
At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle… — John Travolta Copy Share Image