#mort

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

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#been #capitalism #car #else #how

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#immortality #leap #milk #toward

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality. ↗

— William Falconer

#bills #cares #collected #commonly #could

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. ↗

— Benjamin Britten

#color #composing #details #down #driving