#mortality

Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite. ↗

— Peter Davis

#immortality #infinite #art

In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think. ↗

— Derek Landy

#immortality #loneliness #mortality #regret #survival

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#mortality #courage

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong! ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#means-justifying-the-ends #moral-courage #courage

Glen used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#grammar #immortality #death

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain ↗

— Alexander Pope

#death

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

— Jules Renard

#death #mortality #reading #death

Number one on my list of things to do before I die is become immortal. Obviously there is no number two on my list.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#death #die #goals #humor #immortal

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. ↗