#mortal

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all. ↗

— Anne Smedley

#always #belief #cowardly #die #earth

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#immortality #life #lived #make #moment

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#daine #dragon #kitten #immortality

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time. ↗

— Sting

#bruce #bruce springsteen #friends #gabriel #getting

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#ailments #bound #common #exemption #fellows

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#even #fall #grace #harm #inclined

What do I have to say to the universe? A soul ought to have something to say to the universe if it's going to be immortal. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#i #immortal #ought #say #something

Movies make you immortal and ageless. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#immortal #make #movies #you

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adopt #been #certain #circumstances #determined