#mortal

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [Letter, November 1856] ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#lessons #life #mortality #time #true

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#ancient #becomes #before #comfort #discussion

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mortal-instruments #mortality #money

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#anything #besides #bread #determined #eat

Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart. ↗

— Amy Leigh Mercree

#immortality #self-love #love

Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#mortality #love

You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #death #humans #life #mortal

Just hear me out. While you were napping, I was busy chatting up our allies. Didn't you know--your woman's a golden-tongued ambassador! My sisters always said I graduated from the shock-and-awe school of diplomacy, but joke 'em if they can't take a fuck, right? ↗

— Kresley Cole

#berserker #declan-chase #dreams-of-a-dark-warrior #immortals-after-dark #kresley-cole

The decision to be positive is not one that disregards or belittles the sadness that exists. It is rather a conscious choice to focus on the good and to cultivate happiness--genuine happiness. Happiness is not a limited resource. And when we devote our energy and time to trivial matters, and choose to stress over things that ultimately are insignificant. From that point, we perpetuate our own sadness, and we lose sight of the things that really make us happy and rationalize our way out of doing amazing things. ↗

— Christopher Aiff

#depression #happiness #inspirational #life #living

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality. ↗

— George Santayana

#death #immortality #death