A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
No hero is mortal till he dies.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its natu...
A study led by the Harvard researcher Nicholas Christakis asked the doctors of almost five hundred terminally ill patients to estimate how long they thought their patient would survive, and then followed the patients. Sixty-three per cent of doctors ...
I'm pretty well. So's the family, and so's the boys, except for a sort of rash as is a running through the school, and rather puts 'em off their feed. But it's a ill wind as blows no good to nobody; that's what I always say when them lads has a wisit...
One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and your favorite actors, singers, YouTube sensations- are fallible. Adults don't know all, and what they do know, they often w...
Il sistema bancario!" stava dicendo Mathis. "Che cos'è, se non usura? I banchieri sono strozzini; usurai. Ma siccome prestano soldi altrui, o soldi che non esistono, hanno un buon nome. Sono comunque usurai. Una volta, l'usura era un peccato mortale...
trouble with people is, they always think they have to talk.
Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same.
In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.
People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.
Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.
The most optimistic part of life is its mortality… God is a real genius.
