#mortal

Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#every #hour #increases #mortality #percent

Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous. ↗

— Gary Ross

#any #bar #built #cage #capita

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal. ↗

— Satchel Paige

#change #citizen #class #immortal #only

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 glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes. ↗

— Jean Racine

#could #escape #eyes #glory #i

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

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#books #expect #i #immortality #only

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. ↗

— Euripides

#mortals #second #thoughts #wisest