Drawbacks To Immortality Quotes & Sayings

Boredom will eventually set in ... and one day you'll be standing still on an island, with no idea where to go, because all your bridges will have been burned ... The smaller you are, the larger and more terrifying the world. You should not be trying to reduce yourself so thoroughly. — Kristina Meister

I was hunted once.'
Elena looked up to where she could see Raphael and Michaela talking on a high balcony overlooking the lawn, and wondered if either angel would mind if she simply coldcocked the idiot at her side - she didn't have time to deal with this kind of shit. 'Can't have been too bad if you're still here.'
'My mistress flayed the skin off my back and made it into a purse.'
She wondered how well that info would go down with the faction who ascribed heavenly origins to the angels. 'Yet you serve her even now.' It sounded like something the bitch goddess would do.
The vampire smiled, showed teeth. "It was a very nice purse." Then he finally walked away ...
'Immortality has way too many drawbacks,' she muttered, adding the possibility of becoming a purse to her mental list. — Nalini Singh

In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother. — Pope Benedict XVI

Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation is informed by time. — Garth Stein

People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with them I wouldn't discuss in public because it's a real relationship. It's not a relationship for the public, you know? — Common

The fact is, the more you look for something, the likelier you are to find it, even if it isn't actually there; Sooner or later, if you look hard enough, you'll find something.
The trick is then to interpret what you've found as what you were looking for. — K.J. Parker

We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed. — Tony Robbins

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles. — Umberto Eco

If you look at high performers they are always the most passionate - in any industry. — Brendon Burchard

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket. — Christopher McDougall

Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, our eyes fail before the glory of thy countenance. — Aleister Crowley

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain. — John M. Perkins

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus

A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni