#mortal

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Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.


Doug Coupland


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A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.


Jean Giraudoux


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Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?


Marguerite Gardiner


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This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.


T.S. Eliot


#mortality #poetry #death

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


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Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.


Brandon Lee


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One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.


Edward Young


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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.


Hesiod


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Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.


Hesiod


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Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.


Hesiod


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