#mortal

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. ↗

— Jean Paul

#eternal #eternal youth #gives #immortality #sleep

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state? ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fate #former #future #his #knows

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#given #lie #man #mortal #mortal man

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are? ↗

— Anne Rice

#existing #find #godless #immortal #interview

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. ↗

— Anne Rice

#answers #ask #beings #contrary #few

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#best #immortality #nature #our #perhaps

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ↗

— Euripides

#mortals #second #thoughts #wisest

How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of reality as they sit in the corners of our memories, losing their truth and shifting focus? The only way to hold onto these moments and share them for years to come, in all their beauty and truth and glorious imperfections, without losing accuracy is through a photograph. ↗

— Rosanne Moreland

#photography-memory-immortality #beauty

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#basic #breathe #cherish #children #common

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#abolish #different #forms #hands #his