I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart. — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
“Wouldn’t the joys of life lose all colour, if life was eternal?” — Constantina Maud Copy Share Image
Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Tell them you love them before its too late. For heaven's to far and the devil won't wait. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.” — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Hence, in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level. — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I have one commandment. Be aware of your own mortality. Because as you live and achieve, the clicker is going down. — Slipknot Copy Share Image
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more. — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
“He'd learned something. Life was booby-trapped and there was no easy passage through. You had to jump from colour to colour, from… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
How old the world is! I walk between two eternities… What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Cancer makes people think about mortality. It scares your friends and family. And many cancer patients, consciously or otherwise, try to buffer… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday… — Will Self Copy Share Image
There are no atheists in foxholes, they say, and I was a foxhole atheist for a long time. But after going through… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality...… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Mortality is a most curious Experience: In our youthful beginnings we eagerly sacrifice our health and bodies to have even the slightest… — Raymond D. Longoria Jr Copy Share Image
“If one wishes to be instructed--not that anyone does--concerning the treacherous role that memory plays in a human life, consider how relentlessly… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you:-Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
“She was someone who heard each grain in the hour-glass, she felt the passing seconds like sandpaper against her softest skin. Time… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image