Mortality Quotes

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

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.

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

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

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

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

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

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

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

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.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

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

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

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

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.