quotes about Immortality
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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Literature is the immortality of speech.
-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel -
'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'
-- Barry Hughart -
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
-- Brandon Lee -
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.
-- Christopher Pike -
Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality.
-- Colin Jordan -
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I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.
-- D. M. TurnerSource : Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
-- Damien Hirst -
Men are immortal till their work is done.
-- David Livingstone -
Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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This life is but the childhood of our immortality.
-- Denis JohnsonSource : Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.317, Pan Macmillan
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Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.
-- Dinah -
Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.
-- E. M. DelafieldSource : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
-- Edgar Lee MastersSource : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.210, Courier Corporation
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If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
-- Edgar S. Brightman -
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I believe in the immortality of all creatures.
-- Egon Schiele -
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Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
-- Eric Temple BellSource : Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
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You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
-- Ernest Dimnet -
What I have done cannot be taken from me.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
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Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.
-- Fanny Kemble -
Whosoever plants a tree / Winks at immortality,
-- Felix Dennis -
A healthy nature needs no God or immortality
-- Friedrich Schiller -
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
-- George Eliot -
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Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.
-- George Henry Lewes -
Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.
-- George MeredithSource : George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8369, Library of Alexandria
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The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
-- George Santayana -
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... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
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Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
-- George Wald -
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.
-- Gerard Houllier -
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.
-- Gregory Maguire -
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The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
-- Henry Fuseli -
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
But felt through all this fleshly dresse Bright shootes of everlastingnesse.
-- Henry VaughanSource : 'The Retreat' l.19 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)
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And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
-- Herb CaenSource : Herb Caen, Irene Mecchi (1992). “Herb Caen's San Francisco, 1976-1991”, Chronicle Books Llc
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One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
-- Homer -
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Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality? [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?]
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Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
-- Iris Chang -
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.
-- J. Michael Straczynski -
Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.
-- James Anthony Froude -
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
-- James DeanSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
-- James F. ByrnesSource : James F. Byrnes (1947). “Spealing Frankly”
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Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
-- Jewel -
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
-- Joan D. Vinge -
The only true immortality lies in one's children.
-- Johannes Brahms -
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
-- John Keats -
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The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
-- Jon Landau -
Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.
-- Judith MalinaSource : "In Short", www.nytimes.com. June 24, 1984.
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I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
-- Judy Chicago -
Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
-- Karen Joy FowlerSource : Karen Joy Fowler (2004). “Sarah Canary”, Plume
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Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
-- Lewis Mumford -
I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.
-- Lu Tong -
However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.
-- Luther Burbank -
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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be...
-- Margaret Atwood -
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.
-- Mark Jason Dominus -
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Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.
-- Mary CantwellSource : Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
-- Milan Kundera -
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Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
-- Milan Kundera -
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
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Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.
-- MultatuliSource : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press
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Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.
-- N.K. JemisinSource : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.71, Hachette UK
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If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
-- Norman CousinsSource : Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco
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A man's immortality can be found in his children.
-- Patricia Briggs -
Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.
-- Paul CarusSource : Paul Carus (1902). “NirvÄna, a Story of Buddhist Psychology”, p.54, Asian Educational Services
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov -
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
-- Philip James Bailey -
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
-- Pindar -
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
-- Pindar -
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The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.
-- Plato -
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
-- Publilius Syrus -
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller -
if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.
-- Rachel Maddow -
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I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.
-- Ray Charles -
Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.
-- Robert Muller -
A book is the only immortality.
-- Rufus ChoateSource : "Part of a Man's Life". Book by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.
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Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?
-- Rupert Brooke -
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
-- Sappho -
That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.
-- Sara Shepard -
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
-- Stephen King -
Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.
-- T. E. Lawrence -
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I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.
-- Theodore Parker -
The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.
-- Thomas Guthrie -