#mort

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. ↗

— Francis I

#famous #footing #immortality #partake #persons

We were taking out mortgages we couldn’t afford because they were camouflaged to look as if we had a reasonable chance of paying them back. Banks then changed the bankruptcy laws so that we could not get out of our obligations once the rates changed. Lastly, they sold us back our own mortgages, shifting back to us any of the risk through our money-market accounts and pension funds. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#wall-street #change

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ↗

— Eduardo Galeano

#first kiss #glass #kiss #mortal #second

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#again #ancestors #ancestry #black #forced

The Fallen ∞ Now that it’s over, My worlds forever changed. Without you, I feel empty, All this pain, still remains. ↗

— S.L. Ross

#slross #change

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#cornered #homosexual #i #market #morticians

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk. ↗

— Harry Hamlin

#because #days #hunk #i #mind

None of us are getting out of here alive". ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#mortality #death

Old age is the only disease you don't going to being cured of. ↗

— Citizen Kane

#mortality #age

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#boredom #immortality #life #rain #sunday