Quotes Tagged With :mortality

You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in this....

Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye....

But then why shouldn't he write the dead? He lived with them as much as with the living - perhaps more;....

But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!

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

Though mortal Men have little life beside the span of the Elves, they would rather spend it in battle....

Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its....

Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?

I am not a Buddhist. Yet there is a Buddhist story that I hold dear. A monk walks in a forest, and chances....