Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm… — Peter Pouncey Copy Share Image
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [ Letter, November 1856 ]” — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
Bedtime is when I get most anxious because I have time to contemplate. I'm also more likely to question my mortality and… — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
“This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ...… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“I like flaws and I feel more comfortable around those who have them.. The perfect people make me nervous. I don't trust… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had… — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
“Do you believe that you will die? Yes, man is mortal, I am a man, ergo... No, that isn't what I mean.… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Is this what mortality means? Is this how I know my body is of the sort that can stop, that can feed… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality, and of what I wished and wanted for my life, however short it… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“We are all only mortal," said the Master, even more slowly. "We do only what we can do. All the Elemental priests… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Nothing is more inspiring in today’s world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying… — Marlin K. Jensen Copy Share Image
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life,… — Eileen Wilks 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
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
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
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
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
I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually… — Anne Rice 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
“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 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
Whatever's there to feel, feel it—the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image