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:
“The poet sings how the blood flows in his veins. He performs his functions, and is so well that he needs such stimulus to sing only as plants put forth leaves and blossoms.... His song is a vital function like breathing, and an integral result like weight.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)