Carpe Diem Immortality Quotes & Sayings

What can I but enumerate old themes? — William Butler Yeats

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back — Kim Stanley Robinson

When she walked into my house the first time and I laid eyes on her, I was attracted to her. That part was easy. But then I got to know her. She wasn't like any other girl I'd ever known. She was so determined, when she should have been beat down. Her life had given her shit, and she was fighting to live. She wasn't going to back down or give up. I admired her. Then I got a taste, and I was sunk. She's everything I want to be. — Abbi Glines

As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead; she resigned herself to the triumph of glaciers and the death of the world. — Anna Kavan

See deep enough, and you see musically. — Thomas Carlyle

Thus it happens that your true dull minds are generally preferred for public employ, and especially promoted to city honors; your keen intellects, like razors, being considered too sharp for common service. I — Washington Irving

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand. — Roger Caras