Immortality Quotes - Page 18

• We who choose to surround ourselves
  with lives even more temporary than our
  own, live within a fragile circle;
  easily and often breached.
  Unable to accept its awful gaps,
  we would still live no other way.
  We cherish memory as the only
  certain immortality, never fully
  understanding the necessary plan.

  Irving Townsend

  Memories, Circles, Understanding

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• With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.

  Alan Lightman

  Daughter, Mother, Courage

  "Einstein's Dreams". Book by Alan Lightman, 1992.

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• The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Crush, Easter

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.288

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• The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Death, Lying

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

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• We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Responsibility, Men

  "This Is the Work of the Master" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. May 1995.

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• The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Worry, Soul

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• The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Grief, Book, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions”

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• Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

  George Crabbe

  Lying, Slumber, Pages

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.38

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• Literature is the immortality of speech.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Literature, Speech

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• The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Friendship, Beautiful, Character

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• It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.

  Maureen O'Sullivan

  Children, Nice, Appreciate

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• Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

  Felix Dennis

  Tree, Plant, Plant A Tree

  "Whosoever Plants A Tree". Poem by Felix Dennis, www.poemhunter.com.

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• The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.

  Robert Montgomery

  Air, Names, Theatre

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• None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wisdom, Believe, Unconscious

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• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Achievement, Agnostic, Strive

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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• Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

  Sergei Diaghilev

  Art, World, Wonder

  "Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance" by Luke Jennings, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the
  only cause that you can't die for.

  Leonard Orr

  Mistake, Forever, Causes

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• Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Cheesy, Milk, Cheese

  Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

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• I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Believe, Ideas, Alive

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Firsts, Printing, Mistaken

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.230, University of Toronto Press

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• What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Time, Believe, Arrogance

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• One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

  Antonio Porchia

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.

  Tim Ferriss

  Years, Data, People

  "Tim Ferriss Wants to Hack Your Body". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

  Charles Kuralt

  Light, Fields, Gone

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• To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

  Jon Landau

  Musical Ability, Culture, Links

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