#mortality

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer. ↗

— Jodi Rell

#cancer #confronted #had #i #mortality

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#inanimate #me #mortality #most #terrible

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#eternal-life #human-desire #immortality #money #wisdom

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #mortality #age

The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness". ↗

— Leonard D. Orr

#conscious-breathing #immortality #meditation #new-age #new-age-movement

In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#humor #mortality #patience #death

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying ↗

— Gerard Way

#fame #immortality #death

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#immortality #life #travel #death

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success. ↗

— James Dean

#immortality #death