Immortality Quotes
Mitch Albom
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
3708G.K. Chesterton
[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.
2590James Joyce
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.
3420Doug Dillon
The physical world we live in is just the beginning.
3148Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.
1539Robin Sloan
The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.
2084Marcel Proust
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of
life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they
continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It
is as though they were traveling abroad.
4155Marcus Tullius Cicero
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
1165Micheline Jean Louis
Oh love let me embrace your path, to be remembered in kindness so I may remain immortal
2491Glen Duncan
All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.
3748Michael LaRocca
Schopenhauer wrote that to desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. He was correct.
3536J.K. Rowling
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
2930Terry Pratchett
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
2262Terry Pratchett
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.
3561Jennifer Donnelly
I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.
3703Alfred Tennyson
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,
And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d
To dwell in presence of immortal youth,
Immortal age beside immortal youth,
And all I was, in ashes.
- Tithonus
4721Emily Dickinson
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
4628Margaret Atwood
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.
1375Gregory Maguire
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.
3337Saint Vardapet Eghishē
Մահ ոչ իմացեալ՝ մահ է, մահ իմացեալ՝ անմահութիւն է:
Death, unanticipated, is death; death, anticipated, is immortality.
2852Doug Dillon
Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.
4705Werner Von Braun
Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
1889Nalini Singh
Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?
1083Elizabeth Marx
Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.
1841Lionel Johnson
While death and darkness girdle me
I grope for immortality.
1527George Santayana
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
3495Thomm Quackenbush
Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever.
3104Christopher Hitchens
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.
1570John Patrick Lowrie
The only way to find out if you're immortal is to make it to the end of time and look around to see if you're still alive. Until you've done that, all you know is that you haven't died yet.
4619H. Rider Haggard
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
4699H. Rider Haggard
That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
2069Thomas Malory
Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.
4926Vera Nazarian
Hope is the last thing that dies.
Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.
1678Dalai Lama XIV
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
1553H.P. Lovecraft
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism - religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.
4739Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
4844Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.
3023Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence.
3495Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.
2913John Muir
Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
4083Alberto Manguel
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
1398John Milton
Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
3596Tiffany Thompson
All souls can earn IMMORTALITY.
The Creators have IMMORTALITY.
The Creators are the' ONLY' ONES'
To award IMMORTALITY...
FROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits
2423Marcel Proust
No doubt my books too, like my mortal being, would eventually die, one day. But one has to resign oneself to dying. One accepts the thought that in ten years oneself, in a hundred years one's books, will not exist. Eternal duration is no more promised to books than it is to men.
1657Kenneth Bøgh Andersen
≫Når du kaster den terning,≪ Sagde Filip, ≫hvad sker der så helt nøjagtig?≪
≫Et stort spørgsmål,≪ Sagde Døden og så ham dybt i øjnene, ≫Mon sindet kan klare svaret?≪
≫Prøv≪
≫Når terningen kastes, så begynder sandet at løbe ≪
4534Kenneth Bøgh Andersen
≫Koma. I resten af…≪ Mortimer kastede et hurtigt blik på timeglasset, ≫hans liv. Hvilket vil være evigt, nu da terningen er væk. Død, men ikke død. Levende, men ikke levende. Kan du se, hvor skræmmende det er?≪
3856Kenneth Bøgh Andersen
≫Værre?≪ Filip rystede på hovedet. ≫Hvad er værre end døden?≪
≫Jeg troede, du havde hørt efter, Filip. Der findes masser af ting, der er værre end døden.≪ En fejende armbevægelse præsenterede de mange timeglas, hvor sandet løb både op og ned. ≫Evigt liv, blandt andet.≪
2648Michelle Franklin
The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living beyond those whom he would have given much to keep.
3076Melissa Thayer
We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever; to capture moments; to capture Time itself.
4843Thich Nhat Hanh
The leaves that remain are only a very small part of the tea. The tea that goes into me is a much bigger part of the tea. It is the richest part.
We are the same; our essence has gone into our children, our friends, and the entire universe. We have to find ourselves in those directions and not in the spent tea leaves.
2919Michael Bassey Johnson
Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.
4359Nigel Holloway
Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.’
Heath nodded slowly. ‘But usually only once, Hamish. Usually only once.
1071Nigel Holloway
McAllister looked up into her face, his eyes blazing with anger. At last, his composure cracked.
‘That’s right,’ he shouted back. ‘My word against – whose? Yours? You were dead, remember? No, of course you don’t remember. You were dead!
3324Russell Brand
I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.
4189E.A. Bucchianeri
Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,
Eternal Wisdom can never die ...
1180Roman Payne
You are like a god, like an immortal one,' she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body pressed to mine, our sweat golden and glistening in the candlelight. 'Oh, my love,' I whispered back to her, 'I am more mortal than all. It seems that a part of me dies every night that I lie with you.
4510Marty Rubin
Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.
2239Charles Lyell
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.
2489Rae Hachton
There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.
4321Melika Dannese Lux
Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools,” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.
4841Donna Tartt
. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
4317Michelle Carbotte
You can’t find God through astronomy; you can’t find immortality through biology. The Kingdom of Heaven can’t be attained through philosophy. There is only one way that leads to these things and that way is through the spirit.
1285Vironika Tugaleva
I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.
3057Amos Bronson Alcott
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
3837Peter Shaffer
Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?
4595W.P. Kinsella
Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
2858Tom Robbins
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.
1324Kohta Hirano
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
2544N.K. Jemisin
They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.
4274Tennessee Williams
The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!-Which it never can be....
2279Arthur Conan Doyle
Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I’ve come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality.
4698Jacob M. Appel
Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.
1652Irvin D. Yalom
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
4826Sarah J. Maas
Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else.
3907Alyson Noel
Forgiveness is healing - everything is energy - thoughts create - we are all connected - what you resist persists - true love never dies - the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality -
2550N.T. Wright
If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.
3925Thomm Quackenbush
Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.
4275Pearl S. Buck
Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless.
She knew she was immortal.
2412Plato
Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
3164Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.
1288Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.
4092Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.
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