#mort

We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try. ↗

— Ekaterina Sedia

#decisions #mortality #regret #souls #death

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death ↗

— Anne Rice

#death

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#death #god #his #immortal #later

Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#mad-eye-moody #death

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. ↗

— Jules Renard

#death #mortality #reading #death

I have given you your liberty, Lucius, is that not enough for you? But I have noticed that you and your family seem less than happy of late. . . . What is it about my presence in your home that displeases you, Lucius?” “Nothing — nothing, my Lord!” “Such lies, Lucius . . . ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#voldemort #death

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#life-and-death #life-philosophy #mortality #perception #time

The only way to find out if you're immortal is to make it to the end of time and look around to see if you're still alive. Until you've done that, all you know is that you haven't died yet. ↗

— John Patrick Lowrie

#immortality #death

While death and darkness girdle me I grope for immortality. ↗

— Lionel Johnson

#death #immortality #death

Number one on my list of things to do before I die is become immortal. Obviously there is no number two on my list.
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— Jarod Kintz

#death #die #goals #humor #immortal