#mort

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#after #canada #consequence #did #emigrate

Did you know — then?” asked Harry. “Did I know that I had just met the most dangerous Dark wizard of all time? No.. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#tom-riddle #darkness

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#again #autonomous #back #born #capacity

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#mortality #soul #life

Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, and mortgages became derivative investments. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#life

Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing. ↗

— Julianna Baggott

#mortality #life

Immortality goes through dead before all. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life #love #life

When mortals discuss about the eternity, conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion. ↗

— Toba Beta

#eternity #life #lifetime #mortal #truth

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#faust #immortality #knowledge #life

His debtors always assumed he'd demand their firstborn. Like I'm fucking Rumpelstiltskin? What would Lothaire do with countless squalling babes? Raise them in a kennel? ↗

— Kresley Cole

#paranormal-romance #vampire #immortality