#mortal

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

Literature is the immortality of speech. ↗

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#literature #speech

You are old and grey,” she teased. “And you’re never too immortal for a spanking,” he shot back... ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#humor #humour #immortal #mary-and-gwain #sexy

Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine. ↗

— Elizabeth Marx

#humor #immortality #reincarnation #death

My rapier wit hides my inner pain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #the-mortal-instruments #tmi #humor

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#continuation #depended #destroy #dry #every

The only greatness for man is immortality. ↗

— James Dean

#immortality #man #only

The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#any #find #i #i think #lot

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#bringing #children #comes #forefront #i

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#mortals #ourselves #ruled