#mortal

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. ↗

— Sallust

#best interests #ever #his #interests #man

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#better #cannot #dead #distinguish #eyes

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#bestows #bliss #end #immortal #in the beginning

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#fools #heaven #hold #idlers #lay

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#claim #confess #enough #err #errors

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#easily #finds #god #i #mortal

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #been #before #behind #catching

It's not that," said Magnus "There are some people - people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #jace-lightwood #magnus-bane #mortal-instruments #beauty

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

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#believe #believing #cannot #help #immortality