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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.


E. M. Forster


#eternal #i #immortal #most #people

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.


George Whitefield


#earth #immortal #our #until #work

Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese temple. Don’t recall its name, but ever since a disciple of the Buddha preached on the spot centuries ago, every bandit king, tyrant, and monarch of that kingdom has enhanced it with marble towers, scented arboretums, gold-leafed domes, lavished murals on its vaulted ceilings, set emeralds into the eyes of its statuettes. When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its purpose, and Time itself shall come to an end. To men like Ayrs, it occurs to me, this temple is civilization. The masses, slaves, peasants, and foot soldiers exist in the cracks of its flagstones, ignorant even of their ignorance. Not so the great statesmen, scientists, artists, and most of all, the composers of the age, any age, who are civilization’s architects, masons, and priests. Ayrs sees our role is to make civilization ever more resplendent. My employer’s profoundest, or only, wish is to create a minaret that inheritors of Progress a thousand years from now will point to and say, “Look, there is Vyvyan Ayrs!” How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves and blizzards would be at one’s throat all the sooner.


David Mitchell


#composer #immortality #music #age

Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one; always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. That you're not supposed to catch it. At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#mortality #time #change

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.


Clifton Paul Fadiman


#immortality #leap #milk #toward

Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.


William Falconer


#bills #cares #collected #commonly #could

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.


James F. Byrnes


#bureau #earth #government #immortality #nearest

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.


Lord Byron


#angels #desire #earth #fire #given

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.


Lois Capps


#correlation #hospitals #indicated #morbidity #mortality

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.


Tom Holt


#definition #died #hasn #immortal #someone