#immortality

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#peace #sexy

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#daine #fighting #misogyny #owned #immortality

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#on-writing #idea

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#apply #contend #cry #die #dispute

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#form #immortality #only #sure

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#because #comes #immortality #life #made

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#gives #him #immortality #man #others

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#immortality #itself #marks #mathematics #off

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#circle-of-life #death #immortality #life #mortality

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#air travel #between #death #exhilarating #fact