#mortal

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#always #appear #appetite #centuries #even

Literature is the immortality of speech. ↗

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#literature #speech

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#alive #childish #cowardice #discover #easy

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

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #love #love is #loved #unable

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

— Bodhidharma

#mortals #ourselves #ruled

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#anybody #feel #guess #having #i

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#delusion #means #mortality

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#liberate #mortals