Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever.
Thomm QuackenbushTags: death immortality adolescence teenager cemetery
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.
Criss JamiTags: life love eternity death mortality theory souls immortality permanence idea temporary terminate
In my recollection, there have been many places and people I have been both blessed and cursed to know. Much joy and heartache can come from immortality, for loneliness can be lethal. I have unfortunately witnessed many I cared for, both mortal and not, perish. I have never been able to own anything that was truly mine. Once, I possessed everything, but many moons have come since that time. -- Sacha Borishauski
Wynter WilkinsTags: loneliness immortality heartache vampire blessed strigoi cursed
Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: morality ethics conscience think immortality principles act athens sparta
Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.
David S.E. ZapantaTags: death immortality zombies undead posthumous
It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,’ whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.
Béla BartókTags: paradox eternity atheism mortality atheist immortality irony ironic eternal origin matter transitory
In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when you die... you don't.
Lionel SuggsTags: immortality idea conception inception
Only youth has a taste of immortality.
D.H. LawrenceTags: youth immortality
I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain,” she says. “Not books.
Robin SloanTags: books robots immortality
Creating is the closest thing to being immortal.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: mortality immortality
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