#mortal

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#everyone #five #gadget #immortal #lasts

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes. ↗

— Jean Racine

#could #escape #eyes #glory #i

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#earth #full #gratitude #hearts #his

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#best #immortality #nature #our #perhaps

I believe in God and immortality. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#god #i #i believe #i believe in #immortality

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#beyond #creator #days #deep #enjoy

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment. ↗

— David Johansen

#certain #certain feeling #drag #entertainment #feeling

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#design #heavily #i #i think #know

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#everything #field #gone #immortality #light