#mortality

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me. ↗

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

#immortality #teacher #humor

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. ↗

— Thomas Campbell

#epitaph #immortality #memory #remembrance #death

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards. ↗

— Russell Brand

#fame #immortality #beauty

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#immortality #death

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #belief #capability #damnation #death

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#immortality #life-and-death #sex #life

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#become #becoming #being #butterflies #butterfly

I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#doom #gift #inspirational #lord-of-the-rings #mortality

The physical world we live in is just the beginning. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #metaphysical #paranormal #spirituality #supernatural

I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#mortality #past #beauty