Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
As far as we know, we are the only species on the planet who have been given the gift-or curse, perhaps-of awareness… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Christlike communications will help us to develop righteous relationships and ultimately to return to our heavenly home safely. May we treasure the… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I… — Deborah Meier Copy Share Image
The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal… — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
“ A Cathedral Façade at Midnight Along the sculptures of the western wall I watched the moonlight creeping: It moved as if… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I have given it much thought. There seems to be only one explanation for why we are here. Why our souls choose… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched… — Sam Kean 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
It is comparatively a faint and reflected beauty that is admired, not an essential and intrinsic one. It is because the old… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“The girl in the video is a reminder about how fragile our hold on sanity and health is and how much we… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Whereas in America we are so fearful of mortality, we don't want to talk about it, we don't think about it, and… — Lulu Wang Copy Share Image
We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
All things whatsoever God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit and proper to reveal to us, while we are dwelling in… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
“The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus… — James Alison Copy Share Image
In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it… — Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran Copy Share Image
I've seen my fair share of drama over the years of Children In Need. I had a close brush with mortality in… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
