Mortality Quotes

356 quotes by 287 authors

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to… — Mitch Albom
The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up. — Sara Blakely
I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely. — Cate Blanchett
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. — Tammy Baldwin
... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood… — Michael Marmot
General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. — Michael Marmot
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of… — Felicity Huffman
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 by, you realize,… — David Johansen
Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here… — Paul Levinson
But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they… — Walter Dean Myers
Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease,… — Henry Ford
We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands, — Ronald D Dworkin
To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed. — Marie Bashkirtseff
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the… — Irvin D. Yalom
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. — Robert Breault
John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he received a fulnesss… — Alma P Burton
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? — Anna Letitia Barbauld
If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand… — Derek R. Audette
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
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. — Christina Rossetti

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