Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking.
When I look upon the faces of intelligent beings I look upon the image of the God I serve. There are none but what have a certain portion of divinity within them; and though we are clothed with bodies which are in the image of our God, yet this mortality shrinks before that portion of divinity which we inherit from our Father.
In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.
As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.
Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.
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.
Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.
Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.
Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead!
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.
If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.
Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.
Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
For nothing is evil in the beginning.
