Immortal Quotes - Page 12

• Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Space, Mind, Awareness

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• What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fact that he realized Athens was not immortal. I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Greatness, Thinking, Forever

  Pierre Trudeau's speech before the Canadian Senate in opposition to the Meech Lake Accord, March 30, 1988.

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• Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Reputation, Lost

  1603-4 Cassio to Iago. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.256-8.

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• There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Fame, Written

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1471, Delphi Classics

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• Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Night, Men, Decay

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 551

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• To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal

  Jan Struther

  One Day, Leisure

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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• I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Christ, Poor, Patches

  'That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire' (written 1888)

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• To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Cutting, Knives, Two

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• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  Lactantius

  Sex, Differences, Needs

  Lactantius, Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (1871). “The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods”, p.21

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• I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.

  Lu Tong

  Tea, Care, Taste

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• We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

  Austin O'Malley

  Fire, Gains, Youth

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• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
  But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”

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• Trust yourselves, my brethren, to the immortal love and perfect work of the Divine Saviour, and by His dear might your days will advance by peaceful stages, whereof each gathers up and carries forward the blessings of all that went before, to a death which shall be a birth.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessing, Perfect, Peaceful

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Aging

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• It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Way, Energy, Infinite

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 294), 1895.

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• Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Genius, Mediocrity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1868). “Novels and Tales by Goethe”, p.153

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• The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sage

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• Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clever, Men, Rome

  "The Napoleon of Notting Hill". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.

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• You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light happens and you are, for the first time, absolutely yourself - an eternal being, an immortal being, who knows nothing of death, who has never come across any darkness.

  Rajneesh

  Light, Darkness, Firsts

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• Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

  Periander

  Good Life, Honor, Pleasure

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• Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves -- for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Beautiful, Knowing, Littles

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

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• The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

  Anne Rice

  Strong, Truth Is, Weak

  Anne Rice (2003). “The vampire Lestat”

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• The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I have been a disappointed woman. I was disappointed when I came to seek a profession worthy an immortal being - every employment was closed to me, except those of the teacher, the seamstress, and the housekeeper. In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of woman. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

  Lucy Stone

  Teacher, Memories, Disappointment

  Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier, 1972.

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• Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

  Heinrich Heine

  Ideas, Christianity, Indestructible

  Heinrich Heine (1985). “The Romantic School and Other Essays: Heinrich Heine”, p.130, A&C Black

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