#mortal

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. ↗

— Anne Rice

#answers #ask #beings #contrary #few

Immortality... Is that a super power? ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#power #super

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. ↗

— Alphonse Allais

#increases #military #mortality #shown #statistics

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. ↗

— William James

#best #deserves #existence #i #immortal

How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of reality as they sit in the corners of our memories, losing their truth and shifting focus? The only way to hold onto these moments and share them for years to come, in all their beauty and truth and glorious imperfections, without losing accuracy is through a photograph. ↗

— Rosanne Moreland

#photography-memory-immortality #beauty

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. ↗

— Sallust

#best interests #ever #his #interests #man

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. ↗

— George Santayana

#bid #divine #faith #heart #led

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

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#cruise #eyes #going #gone #life

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #entitles #free #like #literary