#mortality

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Life is the childhood of our immortality.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#immortality #life #our

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.


Walter Gropius


#been #claim #contribution #immortality #left

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.


Alcee Hastings


#almost #any #below #country #die

A Cathedral Façade at Midnight Along the sculptures of the western wall I watched the moonlight creeping: It moved as if it hardly moved at all Inch by inch thinly peeping Round on the pious figures of freestone, brought And poised there when the Universe was wrought To serve its centre, Earth, in mankind’s thought. The lunar look skimmed scantly toe, breast, arm, Then edged on slowly, slightly, To shoulder, hand, face; till each austere form Was blanched its whole length brightly Of prophet, king, queen, cardinal in state, That dead men’s tools had striven to simulate; And the stiff images stood irradiate. A frail moan from the martyred saints there set Mid others of the erection Against the breeze, seemed sighings of regret At the ancient faith’s rejection Under the sure, unhasting, steady stress Of Reason’s movement, making meaningless.


Thomas Hardy


#faith #futility #moonlight #mortality #night

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'


David Johansen


#continue #cut #even #exist #feeling

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.


James Joyce


#busy #centuries #enigmas #i #immortality

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.


Leon Kass


#equally #itself #man #means #mortality

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.


John Keats


#fears #follow #immortality #lead #voices

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.


James Thurber


#any #beliefs #certain #dogs #few

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.


Joan D. Vinge


#chose #human #i #immortality #mortality