#mortality

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#cheerfully #faithfully #get #immortality #life

His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#male-beauty #beauty

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. ↗

— Francis I

#famous #footing #immortality #partake #persons

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#boredom #immortality #life #rain #sunday

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#death #gifts #gods #immortality #youth

You have never talked to a mere mortal. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#death #life #mortality #death

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#doing #doing good #good #good things #immortality

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#immortality #key #life #living #remembering

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. ↗