As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you. — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000! — Samuel Epstein Copy Share Image
“[T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.” — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time. — Sting Copy Share Image
“We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration. — Gretel Ehrlich 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set… — Tamara Jenkins 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
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
“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them… — John Graunt Copy Share Image
In your 20s, crises tend to be about whether you are making the correct decisions for the rest of your life, namely… — Oliver Robinson 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
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
It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday parties.” — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.” — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
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