#mortal

You promise." "I swear on the angel. The hell with that. I swear on us." "Why us?" "Because there isn't anything I believe in more. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-and-clary #the-mortal-instruments #city-of-fallen-angels

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#deeply #immortality #learn #lies #life

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#believe #best #biggest #focus #held

No hero is mortal till he dies. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#hero #mortal #till

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#itself #love #perpetuate #wishes

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. ↗

— Aeschylus

#enough #mortals #never #prosperity

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. ↗

— Aeschylus

#believe #blow #cheers #comes #divine

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. ↗

— Aeschylus

#manifold #mortals #nowhere #same #seen

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#die #idea #ideas #men #mortal

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man. ↗

— George Berkeley

#disagreeable #entered #eternal #ever #head