Vital or Vitals may refer to:
- VITAL for Children, a charitable organisation
- Vitalism, the doctrine that life cannot be explained solely by mechanism
- Vitalism (Jainism), the Jain teacher Mahāvīra's philosophy
- Vital Forsikring, a Norwegian insurance company
- Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, the 16th century Rabbi and Mystic
- Vital currents, the concept of currents within the body found in Yoga
- Vital (film) (2004), a Japanese movie directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
- Vital (album) (1978), a live album from the British progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator
- Vital (grape), a Portuguese wine grape grown in the Alcobaça wine region
- Vitals (novel) (2002), a science fiction/techno-thriller novel by Greg Bear
- Vitals (website), a medical website
- Vital (Anberlin album), a 2012 studio album by Anberlin
- "Vital", a 2009 studio album by Norman Bedard
Famous quotes containing the word vital:
“True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro’ its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“One theme links together these new proposals for family policy—the idea that the family is exceedingly durable. Changes in structure and function and individual roles are not to be confused with the collapse of the family. Families remain more important in the lives of children than other institutions. Family ties are stronger and more vital than many of us imagine in the perennial atmosphere of crisis surrounding the subject.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)