#mortal

I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don’t know that I wouldn’t deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow: I don’t know on the other hand that I would: I don’t know whether honor is a reality in human beings or a pose: I don’t know that I mayn’t be able to think with my Body when it is in its coffin. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#sex #uncertainty #death

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#fools #heaven #hold #idlers #lay

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#assured #else #error #fails #immortality

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#claim #confess #enough #err #errors

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#form #immortality #only #sure

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#first #i #immortality #long #long shot

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#done #failure #fault #heaven #i

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#because #body #cannot #conscious mind #cult thing

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal. ↗

— Werner Von Braun

#death #immortality #life #soul #spirit

All men think all men mortal, but themselves. ↗

— Edward Young

#mortal #themselves #think