Mortality famous quotes

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais

#Military #Statistics #Mortality

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
-- Amartya Sen

#Children #Literacy #Mortality

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Giving #Mortality

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
-- Aphra Behn

#Lying #Enough #Mortality

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.
-- Atul Gawande

#School #Medical #Mortality

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
-- Bodhidharma

#Mean #Awareness #Mortality

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

#Lilies #Fields #Mortality

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.
-- Craig Johnson

#Mortality

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
-- Djuna Barnes

#Wind #Skins #Mortality

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.
-- Ernest Becker

#Essence #Existential #Mortality

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.
-- Euripides

#Men #Too Much #Mortality

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
-- Evelyn Fox Keller

#Science #Mortality #Claims

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.
-- Frances Lear

#Men #Reason #Mortality

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
-- Frank Herbert

#Demise #Mortality #Ends

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
-- Gary Shteyngart

#Growing Up #Thinking #Mortality

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.
-- Gretel Ehrlich

#Nature #Taken #Mortality

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.
-- Hideo Kojima

#Years #Facts #Mortality

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
-- Ian Botham

#Faces #Moments #Mortality

For nothing is evil in the beginning.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Evil #Mortality

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
-- Joan D. Vinge

#Obsession #Immortality #Mortality

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
-- Jodi Rell

#Cancer #Mortality

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.
-- John Elway

#Age #Mortality #Reaching

You realize mortality is everywhere.
-- Katey Sagal

#Realizing #Mortality

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
-- Lance Loud

#Moving #Mortality #Generous

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else
-- Leonard Nimoy

#Inspiration #Curious #Mortality

No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.
-- Max More

#Ignorance #Weakness #Mortality

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.
-- Mehmet Oz

#Thinking #Hours #Mortality

God is a placebo for your own mortality.
-- Robert Barron

#God #Mortality #Placebo

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

#Cancer #Years #Mortality

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

#Thinking #Numbers #Mortality

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
-- Susan Sontag

#Moments #Photograph #Mortality

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
-- T. S. Eliot

#Tired #Dying #Mortality

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
-- Tammy Baldwin

#Country #Outcomes #Mortality

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.
-- Walter Duranty

#Disease #Mortality #Starvation

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
-- William Dean Howells

#Book #Mortality #Terrible

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.
-- Alex Lemon

#Writing #Mortality

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.
-- Kimberly Williams-Paisley

#Epidemics #Obesity Epidemic #Mortality

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

#Profound #Way #Mortality

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.
-- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

#Cancer #Scare #Mortality

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.
-- Lee Unkrich

#Kids #Adults #Mortality