Mortality Quotes

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

I'm a student of history and know that civilizations get lost - they are born and die - and so I recognize the tender mortality of our civilization. I'm not saying I'm separate from the despair of that, but I'm not controlled by the despair of that.

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality.

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank.

Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.