#mortal

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

A book is the only immortality. ↗

— Rufus Choate

#immortality #only

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#beyond #creator #days #deep #enjoy

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#design #heavily #i #i think #know

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#everything #field #gone #immortality #light

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both. ↗

— Homer

#both #cup #distributes #ever #evil

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ↗

— Horace

#grants #hard #hard work #life #mortals

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#die #fountainhead #life #live #mortality

What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there. "It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #love #mortal-instruments #humor