#mortal

Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#mortality #vampire #death

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. ↗

— Jules Renard

#death #mortality #reading #death

It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with modern man is not so much that he situates himself in the future of a human lifetime, since he fears death far too much to do that, but rather than he does not situate himself in any of these three scales of time. Instead, he is forever stuck somewhere in-between, this evening, tomorrow morning, next week, next Christmas, in five years’ time. As a result, he has neither the joy of the present moment, nor the satisfied accomplishments of a human lifetime, nor the perspective and immortality of the eternal. ↗

— Neel Burton

#happiness #immortality #meaning #time #death

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are harder to kill then people, but they can be killed, in the end. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#gods #ideal #immortality #death

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word. ↗

— Ivan Doig

#mortality #death

You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze. ↗

— Clare Morgan

#life #death

Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him? ↗

— Nalini Singh

#immortality #life #love #death

Shall a man grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on the water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with my generation, and die my appointed death, and be forgotten. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#immortality #mortality #death

She gazed around with a bored air. "This feels just like Law and Order. But shouldn't you lawyer up before I throw the book at you? No? So what's in the IV bag? ↗

— Kresley Cole

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

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#dreams