All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent. — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
“Ashes have no fear to burn in hell In your heart's paradise angels dwell Rib cage fastens all sins of the wrong… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Here on Earth, we live once and die once. So, whatever you're doing, do it like you're only gonna do it once. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
This gospel has often been spoken of as a way of life. This however is not quite accurate. Consisting as it does… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
“The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me.… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
“I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“I leaned forward with my elbows on my knees and her book in my hands. Like a lot of things in my… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Let not the rash marble risk garrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence, in many words recalling name, renown, events, birthplace. All those glass… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Two of the vital pillars that sustain Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness are marriage and the family. Their lofty significance is… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life—a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple—the painter is giving you… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Remember, loving them is the powerful foundation for influencing those you want to help. ... As a companion to that love, trust… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course,… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality. — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,… — Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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![“As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other…” quote by Jessica Valenti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5c/jessica-valenti-1960_amnesty_as-indicated-by-the-increase-in-maternal_3086967.jpg)
