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I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
As a society, when you have your mortality slapped in your face, it changes you.
'They Both Die At The End' is about coming face to face with your own mortality.
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.
I've always had an acute sense of mortality, maybe because my father's a minister.
In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality!
I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.
... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.
There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
I find old women at weddings and funerals attractive; I have this weird mortality thing.
Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.
There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.
Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!
You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.
But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.
In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of 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.