#mortality

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring. ↗

— Iain Pears

#freedom #immortality #liberation #meaning #philosophy

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #letter-writing #letters #the-mind #friendship

If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for? ↗

— Justin Taylor

#friendship #mortality #sex #friendship

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies? ↗

— Plato

#philosophy-of-life #soul #life

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #life #death

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#life

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#manfred #mortality #life

Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ↗

— John Milton

#immortality #life #literature #life

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#philosophical #life