#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

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love. ↗

— John Piper

#death #faith #immortality #death

Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring deep mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping of a heartbeat, the rocker is transformed from decadent, depraved hedonist into misunderstood genius. Aye, death and musical stardom go together like Scotland and rain. ↗

— Mark Rice

#fame #immortality #mark-rice #metallic-dreams #music

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#immortality #friendship

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#immortality #leap #milk #towards

Immortality is a by-product of good work. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#good #good work #immortality #work

Life is the childhood of our immortality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#immortality #life #our

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality. ↗

— José Saramago

#consequences #deeds #forgiveness #immortality #forgiveness

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#immortality #pirates #death