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Quotes About Morbidity

For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
~ Esther Duflo
Biblionekromantik ist keine Religion, eher das gegenteil. Sie haben lediglich ein morbides Verhältnis zu Büchern. Ihnen können die Schwarten gar nicht alt und zerbrechlich genug sein.
~ Walter Moers
Aortic dissection results from an intimal tear in the aortic wall. The primary morbidity and mortality results from extension of the tear. This extension is promoted by factors that increase the rate of change of aortic pressure (dp/dt), including elevation in BP, heart rate, and myocardial stroke volume. Blood pressure should be reduced promptly to near-normal levels. Aggressive control of BP with a vasodilator can trigger reflex tachycardia, leading to increased dp/dt.
~ Jean-Louis Vincent
Some morbidity in me attracts mosquitoes
~ Robert Lowell
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.
~ Roger Zelazny
Dead bodies are such trouble," Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.
~ Libba Bray
Oft times a blade across the room beyond the reach of a hand means that death is nearer. I
~ Louis L'Amour
And so the doubts begin... Our doom draws nearer, and every man sees it. A strange thing, death. Far away, you can laugh at it, but as it comes closer it looks worse and worse. Close enough to touch, and no one laughs.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He misliked the very word "interesting," connoting it with wasted energy and even with morbidity. Hard facts were enough for him.
~ E.M. Forster
Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
~ Rollo May
adolescents have very little to look forward to except the army and unsettled economic conditions, and are without positive, constructive goals. The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
~ Rollo May
When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Barkley's comment that ADD is more impairing than any syndrome in all mental health that is treated on an outpatient basis. More impairing than anxiety, more impairing than depression, more impairing than substance abuse. The "morbidity" of untreated ADD is profound.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.
~ Marti Noxon
Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
~ Brian Sibley
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
~ Emil Cioran
No sé si alguna vez has sentido algo así. Que querrías dormir durante mil años. O simplemente no existir. O no ser consciente de que existes. O algo parecido. Creo que querer eso es muy morboso, pero yo lo deseo cuando me pongo así. Por eso estoy intentando no pensar. Solo quiero que todo deje de dar vueltas
~ Stephen Chbosky
What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
~ Alice Dreger
center, in bigger print: And if I die no soul will pity me. And why should they since I myself find in myself no pity to myself. I asked what it was
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Differences in morbidity, mortality, and nutritional status linked to differences in socioeconomic status, caste, class, gender, and geography persist in India.
~ Bibek Debroy
There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, grass, and wood-wind, on which St. John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness...
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Sometimes I felt so badly about those cats that I'd find myself wishing that both I and the cats could simply cease to exist.
~ Bohumil Hrabal