“When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease. — James Young Copy Share Image
Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
It carried quite a wallop. I have all the classic symptoms. Reflection. Where am I now? Where have I come from? What's… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's… — Daniel Day-Lewis 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
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
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
“Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is. If there is such a thing as wisdom, and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“When the Root and Branch were young, when the Rose still grew unplucked upon the tree; when all our lands were new… — Seanan McGuire 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
“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
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
“the ~25% lower mortality from all other causes (a catch-all category in which the most common cause of death is old age)… — Paul Appleby 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
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
“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
For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how… — Kit Williamson 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
“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
Becoming a mother really put me in touch with not just my mortality but also my baby's mortality. You spent nine months… — Zoe Buckman 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
The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones… — Sheri L. Dew 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
“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
“Case fatality is defined as the proportion of patients with the disease who die, whereas mortality, a population-based measure, is defined as… — Marya Zilberberg Copy Share Image
“Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image