And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples. — Hesiod 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
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
On and on eternally Shall your altered fluid run, Bud and bloom and go to seed; But your singing days are done — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Love is too mighty for humans to handle. It may make you feel invincible, but it will show you your own mortality.… — Anonymous 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
“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality. ... We have… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“I'm acutely aware that I'm, you know, could go any day now, but I don't know why it doesn't concern me. I'm… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong,… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
We declare our belief in Jesus Christ and accept Him as our Savior. He will bless us and guide us in all… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Many of the lessons we are to learn in mortality can only be received through the things we experience and sometimes suffer.… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“At least when I bleed, it’s my own blood. At least when I fuck up, it’s my own fault. I own my… — Lokesh Tuli 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
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to… — Lance Armstrong 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
The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner...… — John Cairns Copy Share Image
“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary… — Catherine Drinker Bowen 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
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of… — Jose A. Teixeira Copy Share Image
To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“What in hell was mortality? Shitting, pissing, eating, and then the same cycle all over again!” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality. — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love. — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer… — Gertrude Diamant 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
