“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
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I value my time so much that undressing is the only thing I am willing to do for sex.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
It's no use reminding yourself daily that you are mortal: it will be brought home to you soon enough — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?” — Justin Taylor Copy Share Image
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year… — Joseph L. Bast Copy Share Image
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
“...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and… — Missouri Williams Copy Share Image
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars -… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which… — Daniel Alarcón Copy Share Image
I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials.… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“I have given it much thought. There seems to be only one explanation for why we are here. Why our souls choose… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“ A Cathedral Façade at Midnight Along the sculptures of the western wall I watched the moonlight creeping: It moved as if… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image