#mortal

Just hear me out. While you were napping, I was busy chatting up our allies. Didn't you know--your woman's a golden-tongued ambassador! My sisters always said I graduated from the shock-and-awe school of diplomacy, but joke 'em if they can't take a fuck, right? ↗

— Kresley Cole

#berserker #declan-chase #dreams-of-a-dark-warrior #immortals-after-dark #kresley-cole

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. ↗

— Thomas Campbell

#epitaph #immortality #memory #remembrance #death

The decision to be positive is not one that disregards or belittles the sadness that exists. It is rather a conscious choice to focus on the good and to cultivate happiness--genuine happiness. Happiness is not a limited resource. And when we devote our energy and time to trivial matters, and choose to stress over things that ultimately are insignificant. From that point, we perpetuate our own sadness, and we lose sight of the things that really make us happy and rationalize our way out of doing amazing things. ↗

— Christopher Aiff

#depression #happiness #inspirational #life #living

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality. ↗

— George Santayana

#death #immortality #death

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards. ↗

— Russell Brand

#fame #immortality #beauty

The temptation to second-guess is strong. But I must remember one thing. Life is simple. You are healthy or you are sick. You are faithful to your wife or you aren't. You are alive or you are dead. I am alive. ↗

— Greg Iles

#faith

Sometimes we intentionally blind ourselves. We find poor substitutes for the things we lack: friends, family, love. And that substitute becomes almost addictive, to the point where we continue to try to turn it into the real thing, or convince ourselves it’s better than having nothing in its stead. But, Kitty, when you do find the real thing, you’ll wonder why you ever settled for anything less. ↗

— Caitlin Elyse

#heaven-prays-hell-preys #immortal-wars #family

This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#mortality #imagination

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#immortality #life-and-death #sex #life

I was laughing at you because declarations of love amuse me, especially when unrequited," he said. -Jace pg. 41 ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#shadow-hunters #love