#mortal

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#both #cancer #everything #fighting #get

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#immortality #death

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. ↗

— James Beattie

#beauty #immortal #tomb

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#immortality #itself #marks #mathematics #off

[A] right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who has truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living. ↗

— Epicurus

#mortality #death

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#desirable #guess #i #images #immortality

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#circle-of-life #death #immortality #life #mortality

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

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dead #die #everyone #going #himself

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#air travel #between #death #exhilarating #fact