#mortal

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations. ↗

— John Banville

#death #grief #immortality #life-goes-on #loss

I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know? ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#good #i #i think #immortal #know

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move. ↗

— Lance Loud

#definitely #faced #generous #i #i am

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. ↗

— Karl Marx

#art #confession #everywhere #immortal #movement

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

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation. ↗

— James McGreevey

#damnation #faith #forthcoming #homosexuality #mortal

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#explorers #mortality #reality #travelers

The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#best #cannot #consequences #doctors #get

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dearly #die #immortality #pay #several

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

— Jean Paul

#eternal #eternal youth #gives #immortality #sleep