Quotes about Mortality

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality. Votes: 4

Mortality defines the human condition. Votes: 3

There is nothing serious in Mortality Votes: 3

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50. Votes: 3

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much. Votes: 3

Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality Votes: 3

Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for. Votes: 3

Mortality is but a stepping-stone to a more glorious existence in the future. Votes: 3

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. Votes: 3

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. Votes: 3

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on. Votes: 3

Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones, Votes: 3

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. Votes: 3

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 think: 'I've left things a little late. Votes: 3

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 think: 'I've left things a little late.' Votes: 3

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.' Votes: 3

Mortality is the great rescuer, it finally takes you out of everything, and that makes life good.Read Carl Jung. It makes life richer because this is it; none of us know where we go and this is the fun of it. Votes: 3

Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society. Votes: 2

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. Votes: 2

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more. Votes: 2

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? Votes: 2

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. Votes: 2

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life. Votes: 2

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time. Votes: 2

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. Votes: 2

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. Votes: 2

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. Votes: 2

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust. Votes: 2

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. Votes: 2

O Charidas, what of the under world?" "Great darkness." "And what of the resurrection?" "A lie." "And Pluto?" "A fable; we perish utterly. Votes: 2

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality. Votes: 2

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed. Votes: 2

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. Votes: 2

To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality! Votes: 2

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it. Votes: 2

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 somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be. Votes: 2

To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began, Alike the busy and the gay, But flutter through life's little day. Votes: 2

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. Votes: 2

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever. Votes: 2

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows. Votes: 2

I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in. Votes: 2

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific. Votes: 2

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, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.' Votes: 2

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. Votes: 2

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 their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. Votes: 2

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children. Votes: 2

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility. Votes: 2

Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been. Votes: 2

The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. Votes: 2

What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off. Votes: 2

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing. Votes: 2

A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious. Votes: 2

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.' Votes: 2

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality. Votes: 2

I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may. Votes: 2

Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety. Votes: 2

I'm always aware of mortality. Votes: 0

You realize mortality is everywhere. Votes: 0

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. Votes: 0

God is a placebo for your own mortality. Votes: 0

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Votes: 0

All power is in essence power to deny mortality. Votes: 0

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. Votes: 0

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man. Votes: 0

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality. Votes: 0

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time. Votes: 0

Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland. Votes: 0

Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality Votes: 0

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality. Votes: 0

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman. Votes: 0

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality. Votes: 0

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. Votes: 0

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. Votes: 0

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. Votes: 0

It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically. Votes: 0

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality. Votes: 0

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. Votes: 0

Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience. Votes: 0

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay. Votes: 0

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move. Votes: 0

Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults. Votes: 0

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies... Votes: 0

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality. Votes: 0

knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us. Votes: 0

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. Votes: 0

It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. Votes: 0

If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent. Votes: 0

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. Votes: 0

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality! Votes: 0

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality. Votes: 0

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. Votes: 0

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality. Votes: 0

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified. Votes: 0

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old. Votes: 0

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. Votes: 0

The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart. Votes: 0

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality. Votes: 0

Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do! Votes: 0

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will. Votes: 0

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. Votes: 0

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. Votes: 0

Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality. Votes: 0

As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases. Votes: 0

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. Votes: 0

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love. Votes: 0

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate. Votes: 0

Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity. Votes: 0

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. Votes: 0

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. Votes: 0

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Votes: 0

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality. Votes: 0

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality. Votes: 0

Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. Votes: 0

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children Votes: 0

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use. Votes: 0

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. Votes: 0

O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. Votes: 0

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration. Votes: 0

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. Votes: 0

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands, Votes: 0

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer. Votes: 0

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering Votes: 0

The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality. Votes: 0

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love. Votes: 0

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. Votes: 0

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Votes: 0

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. Votes: 0

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. Votes: 0

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? Votes: 0

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled. Votes: 0

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me. Votes: 0

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. Votes: 0

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal. Votes: 0

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. Votes: 0

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely. Votes: 0

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. Votes: 0

Dead folks use plastic! When in doubt, throw it out! Please use the bathroom appointed for your gender and mortality! Votes: 0

If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer. Votes: 0

They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease. Votes: 0

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it. Votes: 0

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it! Votes: 0

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. Votes: 0

Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality. Votes: 0

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. Votes: 0

Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality. Votes: 0

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. Votes: 0

Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you. Votes: 0

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. Votes: 0

Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality. Votes: 0

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand. Votes: 0

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. Votes: 0

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned. Votes: 0

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality. Votes: 0

And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war. Votes: 0

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged. Votes: 0

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. Votes: 0

Let us give thanks for what we are and for the circumstances God has given us for our personal journey through mortality. Votes: 0

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion. Votes: 0

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being. Votes: 0

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. Votes: 0

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on. Votes: 0

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do. Votes: 0

... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die. Votes: 0

Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations. Votes: 0

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God! Votes: 0

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living. Votes: 0

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for. Votes: 0

Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven. Votes: 0

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality. Votes: 0

Trust in God. Hold on to His love. Know that one day the dawn will break brightly and all shadows of mortality will flee. Votes: 0

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences. Votes: 0

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. Votes: 0

Personally, I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Votes: 0

Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality. Votes: 0

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches. Votes: 0

I think with age you get wiser and understand the importance of taking care of your skin. I think you're also more aware of your mortality. Votes: 0

May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality. Votes: 0

Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed. Votes: 0

Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there. Votes: 0

More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine. Votes: 0

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists. Votes: 0

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality. Votes: 0

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.. Votes: 0

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song. Votes: 0

Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes. Votes: 0

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know, Votes: 0

Many of us will not survive our tests in mortality without help from others. And just as true: in helping others we keep our own spirits alive. Votes: 0

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you. Votes: 0

Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate. Votes: 0

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality. Votes: 0

The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. Votes: 0

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity. Votes: 0

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality. Votes: 0

In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, venereal disease, teen pregnancy, and abortion. Votes: 0

In Sweden for example people with PhDs have lower mortality than those with a masters degree. And people with a masters degree or a professional degree are not poor. Votes: 0

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? Votes: 0

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 are going to die. Votes: 0

It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality. Votes: 0

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 traveled seem less foolhardy. Votes: 0

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 mortality under my pressure. Votes: 0

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change. Votes: 0

What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality. Votes: 0

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality. Votes: 0

The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see. Votes: 0

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective. Votes: 0

Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality. Votes: 0

We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it. Votes: 0

No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously. Votes: 0

The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest. Votes: 0

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. Votes: 0

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls. Votes: 0

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong. Votes: 0

The healing power of the Lord Jesus Christ-whether it removes our burdens or strengthens us to endure and live with them like the Apostle Paul-is available for every affliction in mortality. Votes: 0

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all. Votes: 0

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality? Votes: 0

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, the awful realization of our mortality Votes: 0

Child mortality [since 2000 is] down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news. Votes: 0

Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination. Votes: 0

You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity. Votes: 0

Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually. Votes: 0

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions. Votes: 0

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality. Votes: 0

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Votes: 0

No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life Votes: 0

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ? Votes: 0

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality. Votes: 0

We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us. Votes: 0

Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too. Votes: 0

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save. Votes: 0

As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act. Votes: 0

The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality Votes: 0

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness. Votes: 0

God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones. Votes: 0

There is only one kind of life insurance, and that is pure protection based on a mortality table. All others are pure protection plus a cash value element that I call 'funny' banking. Votes: 0

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life. Votes: 0

We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality. Votes: 0

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy. Votes: 0

I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out. Votes: 0

In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions. Votes: 0

The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories. Votes: 0

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality. Votes: 0

For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy. Votes: 0

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. Votes: 0

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky. Votes: 0

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die. Votes: 0

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow. Votes: 0

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. Votes: 0

Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant mortality which had provoked such concern for early baptism. Votes: 0

I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss. Votes: 0

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality. Votes: 0

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life. Votes: 0

I'm a leukemia survivor, and I recall during my darkest days in the hospital when my friends would come to see me, especially the male friends - they had certain mortality issues with their visit. Votes: 0

We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us. Votes: 0