Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear. — Mother Teresa 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
“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition. — Walter Duranty Copy Share Image
It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. — Evelyn Fox Keller Copy Share Image
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40. — Andrew Lincoln 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
“An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. — Tammy Baldwin 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
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
Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.” — Dave Eggers 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
“The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or… — Virgil Copy Share Image
I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else,… — Georges F. Doriot Copy Share Image
We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals… — Tana French Copy Share Image