#mortal

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. ↗

— Edward Young

#immortal #learning #quote #renown #scraps

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves. ↗

— Edward Young

#mortal #themselves #think

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. ↗

— Edward Young

#how #know #learning #little #mortals

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. ↗

— Edward Young

#awe #destroy #fame #gives #glorious

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#gods #may #mortal #nearer

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#end #know #learn #mortal #mortality

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#die #fountainhead #life #live #mortality

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#evermore #immortals #loss #noel #live

If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mortal-instruments #pg- #change

And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#romance #teen-fantasy #dating