Quotes about immortality

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

Allen, Woody on immortality
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"Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while."

Arendt, Hannah on immortality   

"Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form."

Baudelaire, Charles on immortality   

"Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent. [Jesus -- John 17:3]"

Bible on immortality   

"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"

Bormann, Martin on immortality   

"If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having."

Brightman, Edgar Sheffield on immortality   

"To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead."

Butler, Samuel on immortality   

"It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre --but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it --the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal."

Byron, Lord on immortality   

"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."

Caen, Herb on immortality
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"For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely."

Dylan, Bob on immortality   

"Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on immortality
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"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

Ertz, Susan on immortality   

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."

Heller, Joseph on immortality   

"Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life."

Heraclitus on immortality
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"The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one."

James, William on immortality
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"The first requisite for immortality is death."

Lec, Stanislaw J. on immortality
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"I have good hope that there is something after death."

Plato on immortality   

"Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving."

Rooney, Frank on immortality   

"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on immortality   

"But thy eternal summer shall not fade."

Shakespeare, William on immortality
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"The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all."

Smedley, Anne on immortality   

"We feel and know that we are eternal."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on immortality   

"All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star."

Thompson, Francis on immortality   

"The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self."

Upanishad, Katha on immortality   

"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on immortality
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"Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog."

White, Elwyn Brooks on immortality   

"Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins."

Wiesel, Elie on immortality   

"All experience is ordinary, until it is transformed by Love."

SM NONA on immortality   

"The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort."

Cooley, Mason on immortality   

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Albert Pine on immortality
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