#immortality

The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#reading #writing #nature

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fame #immortality #unfinished-works #writing #literary-criticism

Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#destiny #gifts #gods #immortality #death

Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death. ↗

— Héctor Abad Faciolince

#fear #immortality #recipes #death

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#immortality #inspirational #inspirational

I’m an immortal. But I don’t want to be one anymore. Or rather, I don’t want to be an immortal stuck in a mortal world anymore. There is something greater out there for me, but in order to get it I need someone to put an end to my life in this world. ↗

— Ramsey Isler

#immortality #life

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#love #writers #love

Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to? ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#tortall #immortality

Your bad taste is fucking immortal! ↗

— P.C. Cast

#immortality

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on... ↗