#mortals

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#evermore #immortals #loss #noel #live

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#good #greatest #hear #heaven #know

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ↗

— George Ade

#current #keep #literature #more #mortals

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#field #holiest #humblest #marvel #may

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#ignorant #look #monuments #mortals #names

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. ↗

— Lucretius

#being #changed #creatures #dependent #diminish

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beginning #begins #bells #century #divisions

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #entitles #free #like #literary

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#backed #divine #even #expect #faith

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. ↗

— Pindar

#full #immortals #life #my soul #reach