#earthly

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents. ↗

— Ernst Haeckel

#cause #earthly #existence #favor #love

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#judge #right #right and wrong #sole #success

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning! ↗

— Nafisa Joseph

#hour #i #morning #sit #sketch

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? ↗

— Ernst Toller

#ask #could #dead #death #earthly

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair. ↗

— David Livingstone

#earthly #give #make #me #nothing

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. ↗

— Jules Massenet

#behind #departed #each #earthly #i

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown. ↗

— Diana Cooper

#contained #earthly #elements #helped #human

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#compatriots #consider #difficult #difficult moment #duty

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#caught #dark #find #haunt #images

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#crown #earthly #felicity #fruition #perfect