Definition of Mortality

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Mortality

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.

Human life; the life of a mortal being.

Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.

Death; destruction.

The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.

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Mortality Quotations

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.
Leonard Nimoy

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.
Thomas S. Monson

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Frank Herbert

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
Sting

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.
Bodhidharma

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. Laing

Mortality Translations

mortality in German is Sterblichkeit
mortality in Spanish is mortalidad

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