Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
“It's always the young ones who end it. The ones for whom mortality holds magic. As we grow older it's eternity that… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and… — David Chase Copy Share Image
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say, you know.… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
What happened in Cuba, just to cut to the chase, their death rate from diabetes went down 50%, their death rate from… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“it is a valuable lesson that should often be reinforced—that many who are faced with impending death, a disease that will likely… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I don't mean to say that you shouldn't take care of your body, or want to keep it from dying. But it… — Gangaji 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
It is Christ's atonement that makes it possible for us to be forgiven of our sins and His resurrection that gives us… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray.… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life. — John Tavener 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 mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. — Tammy Baldwin Copy Share Image
I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died… — Mary Steenburgen 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
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Without time, you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity…Time is what gives life significance.” — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God's plans for our lives...then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
