#mortal

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#also #contraception #declines #directly #families

Yo, Dekko, who do I gotta blow around here to get a shower? ↗

— Kresley Cole

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

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#despairing #i #immortal #know #most

You have never talked to a mere mortal. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#death #life #mortality #death

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#ancient #becomes #before #comfort #discussion

Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love? ↗

— Michael Scott

#immortality #love #the-necromancer #love

I believe in the immortality of all creatures. ↗

— Egon Schiele

#creatures #i #i believe #i believe in #immortality

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mortal-instruments #mortality #money

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#caesar #flowers #hyacinth #mortality #rose

Only a sentimental being would care about such everyday things—things used and discarded by the humans of their respective eras without thought, yet kept and preserved by an immortal who never forgot them. An immortal who loved and cared for them, dusting them off for an eternity, keeping their dead spirits as alive as he—stuck in their immortal tomb never to find the rest everything must eventually seek. Time had no meaning in this cavern of infinite age. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#eternity #immortal #keepsakes #life #memory