Quotes About Mortality

The fear of POVERTY The fear of CRITICISM The fear of ILL HEALTH The fear of LOSS OF LOVE OF SOMEONE The fear of OLD AGE The fear of DEATH

If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

Unless you are perfectly narcissistic and psychopathic—even then—your worst-case scenario is never limited to the loss of only your life.

It is generally accepted that harm from doctors—not including risks from hospital germs—accounts for more deaths than any single cancer.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death.

I am not here to live forever, as a sick animal. Recall that the antifragility of a system comes from the mortality of its components—and I am part of that larger population called humans. I am here to die a heroic death for the sake of the collective, to produce offspring (and prepare them for life and provide for them), or eventually, books—my information, that is, my genes, the antifragile in me, should be the ones seeking immortality, not me. Then

In a natural environment, people die without aging—or after a very short period of aging.

in real life, every single bit of risk you take adds up to reduce your life expectancy.

Our operation has a mortality rate of 1%. So far we have operated on ninety-nine patients with great success; you are our one hundreth, hence you have a 100% probability of dying on the table.

Every single risk you take adds up to reduce your life expectancy.

The distribution was massively skewed, with the bulk of the deaths coming from birth and childhood mortality.

while the lives saved by the drug might not be accounted for anywhere.

Median means roughly that 50% of the people die before eight months and 50% survive longer than eight months. But those who survive would live considerably longer, generally going about life just like a regular person and fulfilling the average 73.4 or so years predicted by insurance mortality tables. There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long.

He will die with the impression of having done nothing useful.

Every year that passes without extinction doubles the additional life expectancy.

since the older we get, the less likely we are to live.

Como se supone que dijo Stalin (que algo sabía sobre la mortalidad): «Una muerte es una tragedia; un millón de muertes, una estadística». La estadística permanece callada en nuestro interior.

la muerte a menudo es un buen paso profesional para el escritor).

And Ippolito too, in his own way, had been a real person, even though he had come to that insect-like end.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short

You can't have living without dying.

NÄ—ra gyvenimo be mirties. Taigi mes negalime sakyti, kad gyvename. Mes tiesiog 'esame'...

And here his descendants have been born and died, and have mingled their earthly substance with the soil, until no small portion of it necessarily be akin to the mortal frame where with, for a little while, I walk the streets

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.