I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. — John Ford Copy Share Image
If anything, all homes should have piped water supply and sanitation, which could improve public-health indicators and reduce infant mortality. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged. — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000! — Samuel Epstein Copy Share Image
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that… — Sara Blakely 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
The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
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
One of the metaphors that I use for start-ups is, you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run… — John August 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
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“She was someone who heard each grain in the hour-glass, she felt the passing seconds like sandpaper against her softest skin. Time… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
“I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
“If one wishes to be instructed--not that anyone does--concerning the treacherous role that memory plays in a human life, consider how relentlessly… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death. — Habib Umar bin Hafiz Copy Share Image
“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you. — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
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