#mortality

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all. ↗

— Anne Smedley

#always #belief #cowardly #die #earth

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

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#immortality #life #lived #make #moment

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#daine #dragon #kitten #immortality

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time. ↗

— Sting

#bruce #bruce springsteen #friends #gabriel #getting

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#ailments #bound #common #exemption #fellows

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#fact #god #immortality #men #personal

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#mortality #soul #life

Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing. ↗

— Julianna Baggott

#mortality #life