#mortality

I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#mortality #past #beauty

His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#male-beauty #beauty

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#limits #lives #meanings #mortality #our

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#boredom #immortality #life #rain #sunday

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality. ↗

— Eric Liu

#after #aging #boomers #committing #community

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#death #gifts #gods #immortality #youth

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [Letter, November 1856] ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#lessons #life #mortality #time #true

I would like immortality. ↗

— Len Wein

#immortality #like #would

Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#destiny #gifts #gods #immortality #death

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#grammar #mortality #nouns #writing #death