#mortality

‎I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality. ↗

— James Joyce

#writing #business

The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#mortality #art

I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia ↗

— Ptolemy

#mortality #night-sky #sky #stars #nature

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#nature #nature

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#immortality #death

A life is not a waste of time ↗

— Nalini Singh

#gratefulness #life #mortality #patience #time

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#mortality #death

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#peace #sexy

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#daine #fighting #misogyny #owned #immortality

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#mortality #die