Immortality Quotes - Page 6

• Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.

  Eric Maisel

  Desire, Duration, Quiet

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.183, Penguin

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• He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Death, Sleep

  "Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Married Life, Death, and Wedding of the Advocate of the Poor, Firmian Stanislaus Sibenkäs".

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• Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

  Bill Cosby

  Cute Life, Long Distance, Firsts

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Soul, Importunate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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• I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Death, Memories, Real

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• Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Dying, Affliction, Delusion

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• That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Men, Profound

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.70, Prestwick House Inc

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• Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

  Laozi

  Self, Achievement, Greed

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• Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Attention, Pay

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• It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition.

  Robert Breault

  Abiding Faith, Conditions, Temporary

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• There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

  Herman Melville

  Balloons, Eating, Filled

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.201

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• Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another. Humans have always believed in the possibility of another life, of a second act. We've also always hoped that there might be a way to avoid dying. The term "cultural-universal" is a complicated one, but I've heard it come up on numerous occasions while researching immortality.

  Adam Gollner

  Forever, Dying, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Dead Man

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• Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Air, Wings, Bird

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• Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.

  Dinah

  Teach, Dies, Mortals

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• Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

  George Santayana

  Children, Memories, Parent

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

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• Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?

  Sydney J. Harris

  People, Eternal Life, Knows

  Sydney J. Harris (1957). “Majority of one”

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• Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

  Sappho

  Evil, Agree

  Sappho (1988). “Poems & Fragments”, Lyle Stuart

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• The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Light, Opposites

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.214, Random House

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• Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Immortal

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• They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Joy, Drink

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.402

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• Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Resurrection, Christ, Graves

  "My Religion". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Chapter 8, 1884.

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• I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Generations, Significant

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• Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

  Robert Southey

  Christian, Character, Men

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