79 Mortality Quotes for You to Enjoy

Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out. Nathan Myhrvold

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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. Nicholas Kristof

Few Way Mortality Countries Like Maternal Led Lanka Slashing Honduras

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. Paul Farmer

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability. Paul Kalanithi

I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it. Ryuichi Sakamoto

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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. Sam Taylor-Johnson

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. Sam Worthington

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You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality. Seamus Heaney

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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. Simon Schama

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Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them. Steve Erickson

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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

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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes. T. J. Miller

Kind Morality Mortality Interested Themes

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

Saw Mortality Obsession Over Over It Friend Get Die

I'm not a luddite. Science, computers, medicine, they're all great. But nature is context. That which we can't control. Its constant mortality and immortality is an answer to the terror of finite existence. It reassures the soul. Victoria Coren Mitchell

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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Statistics About Facts Knew Mortality Terrified Real

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena. Will Self

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

Age Own Recognize Mortality Does Get Certain Certain Age Suddenly

Something happened to me at the precise moment that my grandmother died. She was three time zones away, but that didn't matter. I believe that I felt something at that moment she passed... some bit of her mortality slipping away. Zak Bagans

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. Joseph B. Wirthlin

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important. Joseph B. Wirthlin

Important Mortality Very Brief

It's always been intriguing to me, the loveability of mortality. Martha Nussbaum

Me Intriguing Mortality Always Been

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