Quotes About Mortality

My own face-offs with death had made me see death differently. Death had become not a possibility, but a probability, so I made peace with that dark horseman, and that peace has stayed with me on my borrowed time.

One grows old unknowingly. One accepts the passing of years as a phenomenon that has little bearing on one's personality. And then, quite suddenly, one comes to the realisation that one's contemporaries are growing a little old, falling off a little. One realises that one's hair is white.

least 40 million people died as a result of the epidemic, the majority of them suffocated by a lethal accumulation of blood and other fluid in the lungs. Ironically, unlike most flu epidemics, but like the war that preceded and spread it, the influenza of 1918 disproportionately killed young adults. One in every hundred American males between the ages of 25 and 34 fell victim to the 'Spanish Lady'. Strikingly, the global peak of mortality was in October and November 1918.

without efficient public plumbing cities are death-traps

By August, the pandemic of 2020 seemed more likely to end up closer to the 1957–58 Asian flu in terms of excess mortality. (As we saw in chapter 7, the Asian flu killed up to 115,700 Americans, the equivalent of 215,000 in 2020, and between 700,000 and 1.5 million people worldwide, equivalent to 2 to 4 million dead today.) That meant that in August 2020, COVID-19 was still capable of killing many more people.

The odds of the average American being shot to death are 1 in 314. But he or she is even more likely to commit suicide (1 in 119); more likely still to die in a fatal road accident (1 in 78); and most likely of all to die of cancer (1 in 5).11

Os homens se esquecem com maior rapidez da morte de um pai que da perda de um patrimônio.

al que no le importa morir no le asusta quitar la vida a otro.

More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Women's empowerment helps raise economic productivity and reduce infant mortality. It contributes to improved health and nutrition. It increases the chances of education for the next generation.

You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.

What happens if a car comes? We die.

The body slows with mortal ache , yet my promise remains true at the closing of our days , A tender touch that ends with a kiss will awaken love in joyous ways

You should tell her." "Tell her what?" "What the doctor told us," she said, not bothering to mince her words. "You should tell her that if you keep riding, you'll most likely be dead in less than a year.

I don't want to die. The last thing I want to do is go in a wrestling ring with a bunch of people watching. I'd rather it be somewhere high up on a mountain. I don't need any fans there for that.

I always thought if I died in the mountains, it would put an asterisk on my climbs.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

You never know how much time you have left.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.

What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.

I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.