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• 'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

  Barry Hughart

  Wonder

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• Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

  Mary Renault

  Believe, Men, Forever

  "Fire from Heaven". Book by Mary Renault, 1969.

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• The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

  John Quincy Adams

  Life, Friendship, Relationship

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• Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Writing, Waiting

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• Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

  Christopher Pike

  Mean, Wealth, Knows

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• Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Forget

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• The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

  Saint Augustine

  Passion, Men, Mind

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• That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.

  Sara Shepard

  Said, Darling

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• ‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Wings, Roots

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

  Paul Erdos

  Discovery, Way, Forgotten

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• I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Believe, Intelligent, Creating

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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• The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

  Storm Jameson

  Men, Redemption, Goes On

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.408, A&C Black

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• One thought settles a life, an immortality.

  Philip James Bailey

  Settling

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.19

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• One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

  Homer

  Life, Short Life, Very Short Life

  Homer (1963). “The Iliad”

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• God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creativity, Men, Creating

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.366, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faith, Passion, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2036, e-artnow

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

  Robin Sloan

  Father, Mean, Knowing

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• Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is
  Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

  Walt Whitman

  Evil, Roaming, Littles

  Walt Whitman, “Roaming In Thought”

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• Death from sin no power can separate.

  John Milton

  Sin

  John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.217

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• Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them that knew others that knew it supernaturally.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Atheism, Belief

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• Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.

  Robert Southey

  Death, Blessed, Quiet

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• I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. "And you so intelligent!" "Excuse me?" said tom "Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it." "How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option

  Stephen Fry

  Party, Intelligent, Years

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.42, The Overlook Press

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• I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

  Helen Keller

  Flames, Soul, Eternity

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.27, Book Tree

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

  Robin Sloan

  Sight, Knowing, Secret

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

  Mae West

  Men, Jewels, Diamond

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