Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It is a rare blessing to not want to live a second longer than you will live.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.” — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Getting older has compensations, though when you hit 50 you become very aware of your own mortality and it makes you reassess. — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
“The created a displacement devise that separated solids into fragmented molecules.” — Gabriel F.W. Koch Copy Share Image
Many of us will not survive our tests in mortality without help from others. And just as true: in helping others we… — Kathleen H. Hughes Copy Share Image
“Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.” — Columba Stewart Copy Share Image
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother really put me in touch with not just my mortality but also my baby's mortality. You spent nine months… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
“When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high piled books,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“the ~25% lower mortality from all other causes (a catch-all category in which the most common cause of death is old age)… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
“Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“And in a way, this was how he had come to see his death, as a series of small ones taking place… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seemed as if he'd always been very old. People said that time lasted for ever when you were young. That… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Christian's family lived under the shadow cast by his parents. They had purposely become Striogi, trading thier magic and mortality to become… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“And perhaps the greatest blessing was that we never knew how short the time was.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death. — Habib Umar bin Hafiz Copy Share Image
“As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image