Immortal Quotes - Page 7

• Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Generous

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• That's Collin."She panicked."He can't see you!" Don't tell me you're afraid of your own brother?"Staton seemed to think that was funny.She hated the smirk that crept over his face. She shoved him."You want Collin to kill you?Hide." That made him laugh louder."Kill me?" Stop it,"she warned him,or he'll hear you." You think I should be afraid of your brother?I'm immortal." Collin's heavy steps filled the downstairs hallway.Her heart raced.Why was life so complicated?

  Lynne Ewing

  Brother, Heart, Thinking

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• Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.

  Richelle Mead

  Stories, Definitions, Ends

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.26, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield

  Julia Quinn

  Each Day, Lasts, Hours

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• Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!     No hungry generations tread thee down;   The voice I hear this passing night was heard     In ancient days by emperor and clown:   Perhaps the self-same song that found a path      Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,       She stood in tears amid the alien corn;             The same that ofttimes hath     Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam       Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

  John Keats

  Song, Home, Heart

  "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)

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• Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most don’t practice it on immortal water demons. That’s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool.

  Mira Grant

  Average, Practice, Giving

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• And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

  Alison Croggon

  Wall, Men, Light

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• That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types,” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

  Jim Butcher

  Culture, Problem, Type

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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• Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others.

  Vilem Flusser

  Memories, Giving, Information

  Vilém Flusser (2000). “Towards a Philosophy of Photography”, p.48, Reaktion Books

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• Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

  Sylvia Plath

  Tree

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.143, Faber & Faber

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• Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

  Camille Saint-Saens

  Giving, Effort, Fairy Tale

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• O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

  Pindar

  Soul, Limits, Immortal Life

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• I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Writing, Fire, Long

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• But on the upside, your seraph form will never age. And the only way to die is by a demon blade. As long you survive fighting them, you’re immortal to the things that would kill a normal human. Think of the money you’ll save on medical bills. (Jack)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Thinking, Medical Bills

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• The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cutting, Men, Glowing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.70, Random House

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• Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys..."

  Neil Gaiman

  Agreement, Yellow, Guy

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, May 1, 1990.

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• People perish. Books are immortal.

  Robert Harris

  Book, People, Pompeii

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• These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Kings, Men

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• This can’t be happening. It’s just not possible. (Cassandra) Oh, well, let’s not have reality intrude now, shall we? I mean, hey, you’re a mythological being descended from mythological beings and you’re in the house of an immortal guardian no human can remember five minutes after they leave his presence. Who’s to say that you can’t get pregnant in a dream by him? What? We’re jumping into the realm of reality now? (Katra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

  Lord Byron

  Departed, Fallen, Greece And Rome

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 73

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• You invest a lot in your kids, from the sleepless nights early on and the frightening trips to the emergency room, to homework assignments and a million miles of taxi driving. The great thing is that everything you put in counts, and with a bit of luck, one day they will realize it. Love adds up to something. It's indestructible and immortal and carries long on after your own life is over. Who could ask for more?

  Steve Biddulph

  Kids, Night, Long

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• You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sky, Might, Sun

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3041, Delphi Classics

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• Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Integrity, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

  William Falconer

  Kindness, Believe, Men

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1950.

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• How much longer will I live? (Urian) You’re immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn’t make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn’t. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Make Sense

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