#immortal

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#arises #does #fantasy #goes #immortal

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. ↗

— William Harvey

#born #charm #die #eagles #fly

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet. ↗

— Tom Holt

#definition #died #hasn #immortal #someone

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ↗

— James Thurber

#any #beliefs #certain #dogs #few

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#chose #human #i #immortality #mortality

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever. ↗

— George Whitefield

#danger #forever #i #immortal #losing

Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?" "You win in lots of different ways," Asher said. "Lots of little wins. The point of this life is not to be good all the time. It's to be as good as you can. No one is perfect. No one does it right all the time. That's not what life is. ↗

— Cate Tiernan

#immortal-beloved #never-give-up #life

Ah, ka-lyrra, I look at you and you make me want to live a man's life with you. To wake with you and sleep with you, argue with you and make love with you, to get a silly human job and take walks in the park and live so tiny beneath such a vast sky. But I will never stay with another human woman and water her die. Never. --FROM THE (GREATLY REVISED) BLACK EDITION OF THE O'CALLAGHAN Book of the Sin Siriche Du ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#book-of-the-sin-siriche-du #gabby #karen-marie-moning #love #sad

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. ↗

— Frank Norris

#beauty #fades #gives #immortal #perpetual

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#immortality #leap #milk #toward