#mortal

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#done #failure #fault #heaven #i

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#because #body #cannot #conscious mind #cult thing

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipèd out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#immortality #love #poetry #death

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #eyes #ignorance #mislead #mortals

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#gives #him #immortality #man #others

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#days #depth #fear #gives #granted

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#depended #human #human lives #judged #lives

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe? ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#believe #cannot #made #man #mortal

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#gods #may #mortal #nearer

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ↗

— Horace

#grants #hard #hard work #life #mortals