#mort

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#anybody #feel #guess #having #i

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#delusion #means #mortality

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#liberate #mortals

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. ↗

— George Eliot

#easily #glory #killing #life #mortals

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#build #designers #director #house #i

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#dissatisfied #envious #especially #evil #hearts

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#difficult #essentially #i #immortal #only

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#deep #deep down #down #immortal #know

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. ↗

— David Bowie

#either #ethical #hard #humanists #immortal

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. ↗

— David Bowie

#i #just #living #man #mortal