(192 quotes found)
“Within the hollow crownThat rounds the mortal temples of a kingKeeps Death his court.”
William Shakespeare
“God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.”
Jacques Rigaut
“[For instance, there is a direct link between infant mortality and premature birth. Clearly the more premature an infant is when he is born, the greater likelihood of complications. In fact, according to the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services National Center for Health Statistics, complications stemming from short gestation and low birth weight are the second leading causes of infant mortality in the United States. Ironically, the advanced medical technologies used in the United States tend to increase our infant mortality rate, not decrease it. In the United States, advanced technologies and procedures have made it more practical in recent years for medical professionals to attempt to save severely premature infants. Such attempts do not always succeed, adding to the rate of infant mortality.] Resuscitation is more likely to be attempted on extremely premature babies born in the United States than in many other countries, ... The extremely premature babies on whom resuscitation is unsuccessful are then counted as infant deaths, whereas they are counted as fetal deaths when resuscitation has not been attempted.”
John Abramson
“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 don't claim responsibility and don't hold any great truck with.”
David Gilmour
“The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
William Dean Howells
“And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep”
Lord Byron
“My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”
William Penn
“He raised a mortal to the skies; / She drew an angel down.”
John Dryden
“War gets people thinking about mortality even if they aren't going to be doing any fighting themselves, ... Now's a good time to look at whether you have the right life insurance coverage and to make sure your estate plan is in order.”
Gary Schatsky
“All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers of love, and feed his sacred flame.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
