Aging has 100% mortality rate and no one cares. — Andrej Karpathy
Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare. — Nikolai Berdyaev
Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick! — Mikhail Bulgakov
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. — Heraclitus
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. — R. D. Laing
Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift. — Harriet McBryde Johnson
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. — Andrew Sachs
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. — A. Sachs
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. — Carter Burwell
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. — Sappho
I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life. — Rumi
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. — Seneca
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. — Seneca The Elder
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Short Mortality Quotes
Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal men may live in eternity. — Jan Hus
Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA. — Ingvar Kamprad
If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death. — Habib Umar bin Hafiz
Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal. — Alexander The Great
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. — Nicholas D. Kristof
All bulls*** aside now it's time to be honest, I fear no man for death is all that's promised. — 50 Cent
Life can end at any moment. — Lex Fridman
Face love head-on because death has no strength — Spanish Proverbs
Mortality Image Quotes
I learned that every mortal will taste death, but only some will taste life.
Death And Mortality Quotes
No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death. — African Proverbs
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. — Charles Bukowski
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget. — Joseph Conrad
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with the potential of a superman.
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae
To the Dark Lord, I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B — J. K. Rowling
And no renown can render you well-known:
For if you think that fame can lengthen life
By mortal famousness immortalized,
The day will come that takes your fame as well,
And there a second death for you awaits. — Boethius
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and , when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot. — Rosario Ferre
Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death. — Steven Erikson
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. — Chuck Palahniuk
I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death. — Donald Fagen
Child Mortality Quotes
It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals? — Benjamin Franklin
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display. — Chuck Palahniuk
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell
I could feel his muscles tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? — Anna Letitia Barbauld
I think human beings are almost, by definition, religious people,in the sense that we ask questions of meaning, we anticipate future events, we deal with the issues of mortality from the first time we see a dead bird as a little child. — John Shelby Spong
Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed. — William Drummond
If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent. — Hans Rosling
Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha[s] almost no impact on fertility. Women's do. So, by the way, as a man, it's not to the glory of men specifically that it's women's education that reduces child mortality. — Amartya Sen
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. — Edward De Bono
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects. — Sarah Josepha Hale
Infant Mortality Quotes
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. — Tammy Baldwin
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. — Felicity Huffman
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 — Rigoberta Menchu
In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged. — Indira Gandhi
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. — Greg Mortenson
If you really want to change a culture... empower women. — Greg Mortenson
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. — Ludwig von Mises
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. — Jane Chen
What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they're more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children. — Michelle Obama
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society. — P. J. O'Rourke
Maternal Mortality Quotes
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. — Paul Farmer
Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men. — Margaret Chan
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. — Robin Lim
Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations. — Liya Kebede
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. — Marilynne Robinson
Hamlet Mortality Quotes
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. — William Shakespeare
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below — Claudius
From this time forth
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth! — William Shakespeare
What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and
heaven? — William Shakespeare
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. — William Shakespeare
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. — William Shakespeare
I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself? — William Shakespeare
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. — William Shakespeare
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green. — William Shakespeare
Being Mortal Quotes
It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill. — Henry Tudor
Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection, or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how to die. — Jacques Derrida
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. — Mary Oliver
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment
I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven,
Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator,
And my lively spirit drinketh immortality. — Ptolemy
We’re not really here for that long and we don’t really matter that much. And nothing that we do lasts. So eventually you will fade. Your works will fade. Your children will fade. Your thoughts will fade. This planet will fade. The sun will fade. It will all be gone. — Naval Ravikant
As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done. — Buddha
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it. — Peter Brook
Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts. — Robert A. Johnson
It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason. — Mikhail Gorbachev
We Are Mortal Quotes
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal
all this pain is an illusion. — Maynard James Keenan
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands. — Ronald Dworkin
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. — John F. Kennedy
The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you. — R. J. Palacio
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. — William Shakespeare
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. — Izaak Walton
Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses. — Samuel Pepys
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. — C. S. Lewis
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us. — Dean Koontz
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. — Christopher Moore
Soul Mortal Quotes
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul. — Celia Thaxter
I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it. — Paramahansa Yogananda
We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it. — Francis of Assisi
There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds — Joshua Chamberlain
There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit. — C. S. Lewis
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic. — Willa Cather
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal. — Saint Augustine
Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul? — Don McLean
This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when the soul is found in mortal sin, at that time, it is so monstrous and horrible to behold, that it is impossible to imagine anything equally so. — Catherine of Genoa
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person. — Anton Chekhov
Mere Mortals Quotes
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. — C. S. Lewis
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture. — Margaret Mead
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them. — Michael Eric Dyson
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. — C. S. Lewis
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal. — Elizabeth Aston
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals — Mario Puzo
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. — John Noble
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement. — Sheldon Richman
Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant,
There's nothing serious in mortality:
All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of. — William Shakespeare
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. — Joyce Maynard
Mortal Kombat Quotes
I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games. — Diego Corrales
In Japan, violence in games is pretty much self-regulated.There's more violence in games in the U.S., in things like Mortal Kombat, where they rip out hearts and cut off heads. — Satoshi Tajiri
I do feel Im being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with Mortal Kombat. — Mark Dacascos
My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight. — Matt Czuchry
The other video game adaptation I did was Mortal Kombat, and I did that because I loved playing the games in the arcade. I play all of the Resident Evil games because I'm very much immersed in that world. — Paul W. S. Anderson
I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well. — Brian Tee
You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty. — Parmenides
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth. — Ptolemy
The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years. — Louis Farrakhan
I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods. — Ptolemy
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame. — Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains. — John Muir
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. — Sigmund Freud
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. — Mitch Hedberg
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting. — Verner Panton
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. — Erwin Rommel
Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures. — Kami Garcia
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. — John F. Kennedy
There isn’t much debate on the downsides of consumption of animal protein. Study after study has demonstrated that heavily animal-based diets are associated with high cardiovascular mortality and cancer risk. — David Sinclair
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. — Mary Baker Eddy
Transgender medicine increases psychiatric burden of disease, creates side effects on steroids, inflicts surgical complications and sterility, and raises mortality from all causes. Transgender Medicine equals Bad Medicine. No ethical doctor, nurse, or assistant should do this! — Peter A. McCullough
I don’t know if this generation is the last mortal generation. — Naval Ravikant
My biggest fear is that I’m going to die without having really lived. — Naval Ravikant
People say that time goes by; time says that the people go by. — Vietnamese Proverbs
One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible. — Ernest Shackleton
The dead to the grave, the living to pleasure. — Mexican Proverbs
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with. — David Gilmour
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. — David Bowie
Mechanical forces of exercise exert anti-cancer effects. Exercise increases blood flow - creating fluid shear stress that kills circulating tumor cells. Stage 3 colon cancer patients who engaged in exercise had a 40% reduction in disease recurrence & 63% reduction in mortality. — Rhonda Patrick
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