Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the… — Hafez Copy Share Image
“Human beings are cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality. They are, however, blessed with the ability to ignore it.” — Adam B. Ford Copy Share Image
“She's thirty-four years old. In fifty, sixty years, she'll be dead, and everything reminds her of this fact but him. With Arnie,… — David James Poissant Copy Share Image
“The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true. - In the… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead” — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden… — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
“You can’t be close to the mortality of friends without being brought to think of your own.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Ethics arises in the recognition of our obligation to care for others as beings, like us, exposed to mortality - that is,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a… — Jon Krakauer 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
When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It… — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
“You're sitting there vibrating with 'talent' while the swine are out there eating the crop! Potential is for weaklings and politicians! It… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The most important thing in all this world is that I know that I existed in the preexistence as a spirit child… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
“Most people give little enough real thought to their own mortality. Oh yes, they gabble on about heaven and the bosom of… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“Phoebe asked me, "Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?" I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on… — Joseph Conrad 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
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to… — David Carr Copy Share Image
To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our… — Sheri L. Dew 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
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. — Ian Botham Copy Share Image
God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an… — Edward Dunlop Copy Share Image
I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
