#mortal

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The only greatness for man is immortality. ↗

— James Dean

#immortality #man #only

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#doctrine #immortality #more #soul #than

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. ↗

— Dave Eggers

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Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#delusion #means #mortality

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#liberate #mortals

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. ↗

— George Eliot

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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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