Mortality Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of 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.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've seen my fair share of drama over the years of Children In Need. I had a close brush with mortality in 2009 when a chain collapsed from the studio rigging. I was in mid-spout to camera when I heard an enormous crash behind me - a ton of steel had come hurtling down and smashed to the ground a few feet away.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

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

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices.

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

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.

The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of the world, calendar years are numbered forward and backward from the entire time of His birth.

Unless there is swift intervention, growing numbers of people will become severely malnourished and the mortality rate will rapidly accelerate.

We know from studies that these treatments do reduce mortality considerably, but we were interested in whether they work equally well in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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

When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance.

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

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

There are different mortality rates for males and females, so females get a higher sum assured.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

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

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

Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living.

On the contrary, mortality improved with increasing age at retirement for people from both high and low economic groups.

One of the ironies is that most of the other countries spend considerably less than we do on health care and many other countries have better track records on rates of mortality (and) infant mortality.

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.

I feel like this is more of an open, optimistic record, but there is a theme of mortality that floats through it. For me, I find myself being more obsessed with destinations and endings over the last couple years, even when something is going really well. I like the idea of having a love song about people dying rather than love songs about walking hand in hand down the sand.

Further adding, Increased intakes of polyunsaturated fat also probably explain most of the major declines in coronary mortality in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia over several decades.

If anything, it wakes young people up to a sense of mortality and how your life can end at a moment's notice.

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.

It causes severe illness and high mortality rates.

It could make a substantial difference. The estimates ... have suggested that you might be able to cut mortality roughly in half.

Our children continue to be healthier ... because our infant and adolescent mortality rates continue to decline,

Our study indicates that cancer remains an important contributor to overall mortality in these men, particularly those with high Gleason score and high serum PSA. These data will be useful for men with localized prostate cancer choosing between aggressive treatments such as surgery or radiation, observation and androgen deprivation therapy.

Our work suggests that interventions might decrease the mortality of caregivers. Interventions are likely to be useful in certain diseases, such as stroke and dementia, and the timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example, just after the hospitalization of the spouse.

Our re-analysis revealed that the distance of a village from the coast and the height of the village above sea level explained 87 percent of the variation in mortality among villages.

OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief."Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God."No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them.""The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something --the mortality of the optimist.

Nanotechnology will eventually apply to all cancers. However, this grant is focusing on breast and prostate cancers because they represent a number of compelling challenges and opportunities in cancer research, ... These cancers are among the most common cancers and have high mortality rates, yet there is evidence that with targeted therapies for these types of cancer we can improve survival in Georgia and in the nation.

Nationwide, one of 100 children are born with congenital heart disease and the mortality rate is up to 9 percent. Over a five-year period, our mortality rate is 0 percent.

The 30s are when most people receive their first whiff of mortality ... it's a time when you're first taking a look further on in your life ... depending on how you live in your 30s, the 40s is when it could all start to go horribly wrong.

That strain in Asia has caused high mortality in those birds; the birds that tested positive in Quebec and Manitoba are all healthy,

We estimate in the report that if the recommendations that we give were implemented, up to 70 percent of mortality and disability from birth defects could be prevented, treated, or ameliorated.

We are in an era of increasing intervention. Much of that is good. Mortality rates have gone down for infants.

What we have seen in the U.S. from 1960 to 2001 is a 62 percent reduction in mortality from birth defects.

There are other parts of the country that experience temperatures like we had in Chicago, ... But one doesn't see the kind of mortality like we had here.

We're averaging about 30 percent mortality per year, or 70 percent of birds released are surviving. For the population to survive on its own, we need survival to be 90 percent. As the population builds, we're hoping that mortality decreases.

The rate of early cancer detection was better than what we see in the general community. But it remains to be seen if that translates into a mortality benefit. It is too early to make any recommendations regarding chest X-rays as a lung cancer screening tool in the general population.

This study is the first to provide evidence that early life exposures may result in effects manifesting themselves in adults. There's no other toxic exposure occurring to young children or mothers that causes such marked increase in mortality in young adults.

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

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

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

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

Who then to frail mortality shall trust but limns on water, or but writes in dust

We are close to achieving two other goals, namely, reduction of income poverty and under-five child mortality rates.

We do have fairly high rates of screening for breast cancer and cervical cancer. I think that is having a very positive impact on mortality rates for those diseases.

When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.

There is a belief that the health MDGs are all about building health centres, ... whereas 55% of infant mortality is down to poor drinking water and hygiene - environmental issues.

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.

Under the right circumstances, for an average or low-risk patient, the mortality risk is very low, ... The risk of complications is very substantial, and the patients need to be prepared.

We see this as a serious situation which bears close monitoring. This is a disconcertingly high mortality rate.

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

When countries improve governance and reduce corruption, they reap a 'development dividend' that can include reduction in child mortality rates and increase in per capita income and literacy rates.

War gets people thinking about mortality even if they aren't going to be doing any fighting themselves. Now's a good time to look at whether you have the right life insurance coverage and to make sure your estate plan is in order.

I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

The wolves are the primary cause of mortality in the caribou.

Prevention is very broad. It is not just prevention of cancer development, but includes advances in diagnosis and treatment that reduce suffering and mortality from the disease.

A flat fee of $20 a month is unheard of. With this annuity, you don't have the burden of the mortality and expense charge. Over time, this is a huge advantage.

African-American women have twice the mortality rate from cervical cancer as white women. Researchers need to investigate how those differences are related to socioeconomic status.

Once you've faced your own mortality and sat in the doctor's office and heard survival rates, you realize, that applies to me, ... You realize every day is a gift, every day is a blessing.

Despite the rumors on the Internet and elsewhere, this disease is not as deadly as some have made it seem. We don't have all the answers yet, but we are looking at a mortality rate on the order of 5 to 8 percent of dogs that become infected.

A recent article in Science has shown how a marine protected area in shallower habitat has been effective. Additionally, we have seen the call for reduced fishing mortality on deep-sea stocks in the Northeast Atlantic and believe that could be an appropriate conservation measure.

As long as (bear) mortality percentages are within the (federal conservation strategy) limits ... the state will have the ability to direct mortality in areas where it wants to manage for lower densities of grizzly bears.

You may see the mortality rate go up -- but that's not necessarily because SARS per se is getting worse,

Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.

This is of huge concern to us as we are beginning to see an exponential increase in tree mortality - up to 40% in some areas.

This could call into question every study ever done with sturgeon ages. I may be able to go back and adjust ages and get true mortality rates for the past 60 years. Because we know how many were harvested each year, we'll be able to know how many die from natural causes every year and how that changes over time.

Although some workers retired at 55 because of failing health, these results clearly show that early retirement is not associated with increased survival. On the contrary, mortality improved with increasing age at retirement for people from both high and low socioeconomic groups.

They have agreed to donate another 2 million courses, that is 20 million doses, for use by affected countries who reported human cases to reduce morbidity and mortality and to delay the spread of the infection.

The report clearly disproves the common misconception that women are the only sufferers of fertility issues. With the next generation facing increasing pressure as a result of declining fertility and mortality rates, it's only fair that men accept their responsibility and change their lifestyles now before it's too late.

They have studies that have shown where as few as one pellet resulted in about 50 percent mortality after 21 days. They forced feed doves in pens.

The mortality rates among people around age 60 is about the same in both countries. But we don't do a better job at preventing people from getting sick in the first place.

For example, breast cancer will strike one in eight American women in their lifetime. Early detection using mammography reduces mortality rates by approximately 20 percent. But use of vitamin D might prevent this cancer in the first place.

It is very unlikely that it would maintain that kind of case mortality rate if it made the jump.

It's really disappointing that we're not above 230. That's what I was expecting. We had real mortality between spring and fall - 12 percent, when 6 to 8 percent is more typical.

It's pure nonsense that a state legislator would think there's nothing he can do to benefit Native Americans. The high infant mortality rate on reservations is due to devastating poverty. Yet the state has not passed any laws in the last several years that would boost any of the health or education programs within the reservation community. As for tribal sovereignty, the only time the state wants to recognize it is when it benefits the state, as in this instance when it allows Senator Napoli to opt out of an intelligent response.