Quotes About Premature Death

#1. Radiation has properties of both God and Satan. Like God as the correct exposures give excellent health. Like Satan because too little or too much will make you sick and may lead to disease and premature death.

Steven Magee

#2. You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

Joel Fuhrman

#3. There is no question that, if John F. Kennedy Jr. had lived, he would have
been a formidable political candidate. But his premature death prevented us
from ever knowing if he indeed would have publicly confronted the deaths
of his father and uncle, and other related issues.

Donald Jeffries

#4. To live with dignity meant a premature death.

Anthony Marra

#5. Imagine living in a world where we no longer believe that war can lead to peace. War can't lead to peace anymore than ignorance can lead to knowledge. War leads to premature death, pain, suffering, hatred, fear and more separation.

Renee Paule

#6. To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

Paul Driessen

#7. According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.

Jonas Gahr Store

#8. The typical Western diet is the number-one cause of premature death and the number-one cause of disability. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.

Michael Greger

#9. We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

Harvey V. Fineberg

#10. Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the traditionals, and it's not even mentioned in our Western medical textbooks.

Deepak Chopra

#11. When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#12. Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

Frank Dobson

#13. Racism is not merely about individual chauvinism, prejudice, or bigotry. Ruth Glimore reminds us that it is about the ways different groups are 'vulnerable to premature death,' whether at the hands of the state or structures that kill.

Jeff Chang

#14. I am not knocking advances that provide a healthier life and alleviate suffering or unnecessary premature death. I am advocating inclusion of education on end-of-life matters and the promotion of understanding, conversation, and planning.

Lisa J. Shultz

#15. Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

Hans Fallada

#16. If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

Sachin Tendulkar

#17. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

Thomas Malthus

#18. But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.

Huey Newton

#19. Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.

Hamish Bowles

#20. They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

Anton Chekhov

#21. Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

Ruth Wilson

#22. Grow slow and see what feels right - premature hiring is the death of many companies. And avoid huge growth spurts too - they can cause you to skip right over your appropriate size.

Jason Fried

#23. I have noticed a trend in premature deaths in the people that I know and the presence of streetlights outside of their homes.

Steven Magee

#24. Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#25. I was matter, like everything else. I could feel the slow decay of my body, the absolute certainty of death. Every heartbeat spelt out a new proof of mortality. Every moment was a premature burial.

Greg Egan

#26. The start and unexpected miracle of a night fades out with the lingering death of the last starts and the premature birth of the first newsboys. The flame retreats to some remote and platonic fire; the white heat has gone from the iron and the glow from the coal.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#27. East St. Louis-which the local press refers to as "an inner city without an outer city"-has some of the sickest children in America. Of 66 cities in Illinois, East St. Louis ranks first in fetal death, first in premature birth, and third in infant health.

Jonathan Kozol

#28. My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

Ishmael Reed

#29. Around 20 million premature and low-birth weight babies are born every year and are at high risk of death or disability because of hypothermia.

Jane Chen

#30. His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram ... which revealed occasional ventricular premature contractions. An intern took his history ... and then he was promptly ... simply ... forgotten to death.

Paddy Chayefsky

#31. A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

James S.A. Corey

#32. May we not die premature deaths; instead, may our troubles be limited to pangs of hunger. A man with life will find food to put in the stomach. If death doesn't kill the penis, it soon eats bearded meat.

Okey Ndibe

#33. Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

Saint Basil

#34. Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.

Nick Bostrom

#35. All paths lead to death,
our premature sacrifice for future spawn

(from Elixir)

Bryan Murphy

#36. Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

Steven Pinker