#mort

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#inanimate #me #mortality #most #terrible

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #immortals #teenager #humor

Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #mortal-instruments #love

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ↗

— George Santayana

#endow #experience #immortality #lend #memory

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children? ↗

— Steve Martin

#children #default #find #i #instruments

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#consequence #feeling #great #immortality #indifferent

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#mortality #very #you

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran. ↗

— Anne Sexton

#i #i am #immortal

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#die #humanity #immortal #life #long