“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
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
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
Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it,… — Timothy Murphy Copy Share Image
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“I know now that everything after the accident was merely a tactic to indulge in escapism and self-delusion. When you are hit… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
I mean, it's hard to talk about death without realizing that's our end too, right? I am constantly aware of death. It's… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon… — Eric Pianka Copy Share Image
“The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my arm, the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he… — Alma P Burton Copy Share Image
“This is mortality: to move along a rectilinear line in a universe where everything, if it moves at all, moves in a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The song is an unvarnished love shout, an implorement tinged with...anger? Something like anger, but the anger of a philosoher, the anger… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Whether my mortality caught me at twenty-eight or ninety-three, I made the choice to die content, slipped into the nothingness, my atoms… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you think about the concept of infertility, for example, it's not just medical; it's a repository of so many personal and… — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
“Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,… — William Knox Copy Share Image
If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt,… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
The mortality of those who dig minerals is very great, and women who marry men of this sort marry again and again.… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the… — Alan D. Eames Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health… — Abel Aganbegyan Copy Share Image
But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,” he said. “The inexhaustibility.” “I understand.” “The whole huge nameless thing.” “Yes, absolutely.” “The massive… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
A Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ's example in her daily living begins to fulfill the plan of our Heavenly Father for… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
