quotes about Mortality
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais -
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
-- Amartya Sen -
knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
-- Aphra Behn -
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I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.
-- Atul Gawande -
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
-- Bodhidharma -
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 -
Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.
-- Craig JohnsonSource : Craig Johnson (2007). “Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Longmire Mystery”, p.318, Penguin
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
-- Djuna Barnes -
All power is in essence power to deny mortality.
-- Ernest Becker -
Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.
-- Euripides -
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
-- Evelyn Fox Keller -
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The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.
-- Frances Lear -
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 -
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 -
There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.
-- Gretel Ehrlich -
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We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.
-- Hideo Kojima -
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
-- Ian BothamSource : Ian Botham (2017). “Botham: My Autobiography”, p.13, HarperCollins UK
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
-- Joan D. Vinge -
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I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
-- Jodi Rell -
Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.
-- John Elway -
I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
-- Lance Loud -
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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 -
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 -
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.
-- Mehmet OzSource : "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 20, 2012.
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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 -
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 -
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 SontagSource : Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta
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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 -
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
-- Tammy Baldwin -
There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.
-- Walter Duranty -
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
-- William Dean Howells -
Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.
-- Alex Lemon -
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The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.
-- Kimberly Williams-PaisleySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.
-- Shirley Geok-lin LimSource : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
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Kids don't have the same sense of their own mortality as adults.
-- Lee UnkrichSource : Source: www.thewrap.com
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