For nothing is evil in the beginning.
J.R.R. TolkienThe smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra.
William T. VollmannAll who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.
Audrey AudenTags: mortality immortality eternal-life reincarnation
The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding.
James AlisonTags: forgiveness mortality original-sin
You have never talked to a mere mortal.
C.S. LewisTags: life death mortality cs-lewis
I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.
Neal StephensonNone of us are getting out of here alive".
R. Alan WoodsTags: mortality death-and-dying
The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens.
Robert M. PriceTags: meaning mortality immortality
Think not, O Mortal, vainly gay.
That Thou from Human Woes is free,
The bitter cup I drink today,
Tomorrow may be drunk by thee.
Tags: mortality
We only pass everything by
like a transposition of air.
Tags: mortality rainer-maria-rilke ephemeral duino-elegies
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