Immortality Quotes - Page 21

• Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

  Madame de Stael

  Sports, Art, Enemy

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• Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

  James Ellis

  Morning, Twilight, Dark

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• Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus of being conjoined to God by faith and love, and to be conjoined to God is to live to eternity.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Believe, Men, And Love

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1858). “The gospel according to Mark”, p.234

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• God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Firsts, Unbelievable

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• One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Writing, Artist, People

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

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• This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Struggle, Class, Giving

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• The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Winter, Forgiving

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• My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way I can gain a soul is if a human falls in love with me. Help a puppet out? —b) Hi. I’m Zuzana. The touch of my lips imparts immortality. Just sayin’. —c) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I think I might like you.

  Laini Taylor

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Phones

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• At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Stars, Heart

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.106, U of Nebraska Press

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• Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation

  Kiersten White

  Beautiful, Powerful, Animal

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• A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Mind, Letters

  "The Letters of Emily Dickinson". Book edited by Mabel Loomis Todd, 1894.

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• immortality is a terrible curse.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Terrible, Curse

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• You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Loses

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Ada or Ardor”, p.492, Penguin UK

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• I look through the grave into heaven.

  Theodore Parker

  Heaven, Looks, Graves

  Theodore Parker (1866). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology”, p.33

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• Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Men, Favors, Way

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1939). “Song of Years”

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• There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

  Alberto Manguel

  Lines, Fables, Justified

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.30, Vintage Canada

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• It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

  George Santayana

  Children, Memories, Husband

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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• Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

  George Chapman

  Taken, Men, Heaven

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.218

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• It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

  Otto Weininger

  Desire, Causes, Fear Of Death

  Sex and Character Pt II, Ch. 5

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• I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

  Andre Dubus

  Believe, Earth, Too Much

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error. They think they'll find another way. I'm not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire.

  Adam Gollner

  Book, Thinking, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

  Tom Stoppard

  Artist, Men, Magician

  "Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos". www.newyorker.com. December 19, 1977.

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• Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Children, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.89, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Giving, Oblivion, Granted

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Afterlife, World, Might

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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