Mortality Quotes

356 quotes by 291 authors

The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner... The very prospect… — John Cairns
If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer. — Randolph M. Nesse
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our… — Sam Keen
If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent. — Hans Rosling
The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every… — Randolph Sinks Foster
This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies… — Jane Chen
The reality is, that no matter what you do in this life, itâ€™s coming to an end. Once you accept thereâ€™s nothing that you can… — Jeb Corliss
The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like… — R. J. Palacio
For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality,… — Henry Beston
The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality. — Frances Lear
An important purpose for mortality is to help us learn to recognize and to choose the positive even though the negative more fully surrounds us.… — Betty Eadie
Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness,… — Alan D. Eames
The most important thing in all this world is that I know that I existed in the preexistence as a spirit child of my Heavenly… — Rex D. Pinegar
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. — Ernest Becker
All power is in essence power to deny mortality. — Ernest Becker
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course. — William S. Burroughs
This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers constantly of their… — Desmond Morris
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of… — Elwyn Brooks White
Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality. — John Elway
It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet… — Roger Ebert

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