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#mortal

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.


Frank Norris


#beauty #fades #gives #immortal #perpetual

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.


Susan Sontag


#freezing #melt #moment #mortality #mutability

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.


Sophocles


#both #brings #fares #fortune #future

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.


Sophocles


#does #live #mortals #nor #perish

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.


Sophocles


#ancient #bad #before #call #cannot

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.


Sophocles


#gain #life #long #money #mortals

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


Muriel Spark


#days #decline #first #immortality #life

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.


Matthew Green


#common sense #experience #join #mortals #providence

Its substance was known to me. The crawling infinity of colours, the chaos of textures that went into each strand of that eternally complex tapestry…each one resonated under the step of the dancing mad god, vibrating and sending little echoes of bravery, or hunger, or architecture, or argument, or cabbage or murder or concrete across the aether. The weft of starlings’ motivations connected to the thick, sticky strand of a young thief’s laugh. The fibres stretched taut and glued themselves solidly to a third line, its silk made from the angles of seven flying buttresses to a cathedral roof. The plait disappeared into the enormity of possible spaces. Every intention, interaction, motivation, every colour, every body, every action and reaction, every piece of physical reality and the thoughts that it engendered, every connection made, every nuanced moment of history and potentiality, every toothache and flagstone, every emotion and birth and banknote, every possible thing ever is woven into that limitless, sprawling web. It is without beginning or end. It is complex to a degree that humbles the mind. It is a work of such beauty that my soul wept... ..I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.


China Miéville


#life-s-tapestry #spider #tapestry #the-fates #the-weaver

Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one; always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. That you're not supposed to catch it. At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#mortality #time #change






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