If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.” — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“We do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday parties.” — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones, — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. — Kimberly Williams-Paisley Copy Share Image
You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you're dead. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the '50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like - you had… — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ...… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“I like flaws and I feel more comfortable around those who have them.. The perfect people make me nervous. I don't trust… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
“Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you. Have you given much thought to our mortal condition? Probably not.… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“You can't find love because you think there’s always someone better one swipe away. "You think you’re discerning? You are treating connection… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be!… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“When men shake hands with time, time crushes Them like tumblers; little pieces of glass.” — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri Copy Share Image
I've watched people I loved and grew up with grow old and die. Wow, it's very, very hard to come to grips… — Soupy Sales Copy Share Image
More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
