A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
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.
I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.
Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.
I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.
This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.
Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control. . . stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population. . . in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair.
It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
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.
God is a placebo for your own mortality.
Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end.
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.