Immortal Quotes - Page 6

• That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hero, Men

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.3, CCEL

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• If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

  Henry Adams

  Truth, Mind, Would Be

  Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world.

  Enos Mills

  Garden, Tree, Peaceful

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• [Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning.

  Arthur Caplan

  Running, Different, Cloning

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• I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

  Ida Tarbell

  Afterlife, Effort, Mind

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.23, Ravenio Books

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• Sadly, the immortal Jackie Milburn died recently

  Cliff Morgan

  Jackie, Died

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• One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

  Edward Young

  Art, Fear, War

  The Love of Fame Satire 7, l. 55 (1725 - 1728) See Porteus 1; Jean Rostand 1

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• I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Intellectual, Scare

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.29, Penguin

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• Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?

  Christopher Moore

  Mean, Stills, Ifs

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• A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.

  James Dickey

  Storm, Lightning, Lucky

  James Dickey, Ronald Baughman (1989). “The voiced connections of James Dickey: interviews and conversations”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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• If you're immortal, you can imagine being sad or grieving if a lover leaves you. But if everyone were immortal, then that leaving isn't necessarily forever. There's always a chance that you get them back somewhere down the road - you know, in 5, 10, 20,000 years. So I think that the urgency of the moment gets sapped.

  Todd May

  Thinking, Grieving, Years

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me an immortal soul, but only one that was to last me as long as my body lasted. I do not know if when the last page of my book is closed, that will be the end of me.

  Christopher Pike

  Believe, Book, Grieving

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• But I can tell you I myself have made many mistakes. Things sometimes I would be ashamed to admit. But if it weren't for those mistakes I wouldn't have seen the beauty in me. I wouldn't have awoken the goddess that lives in me. You see, goddesses although immortal were all flawed. They were all a bit extreme at their calling, and they were all betrayed and hurt at some point. They were even considered devious but what made them unique was their strength.

  Mirtha Michelle

  Hurt, Mistake, Unique

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• Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets." Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed.

  Willis Regier

  Suffering, May, Literature

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Artist, Creating, Today

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders

  Peter Matthiessen

  Sunset, Dark, Rivers

  Peter Matthiessen (2014). “The Snow Leopard”, p.283, Random House

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• I am not immortal, but I've got a lot left in me yet.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Iron Lady, Left

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• There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Men, Self, Giving

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• If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Extraordinary, Ifs

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• A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• Lights! Lights would be very good right now! (Amanda) Since they hurt my eyes to the point I can barely see, no they wouldn't. Trust me. (Kyrian) Trust you, my left foot! I'm not immortal over here! (Amanda) Yeah, well, in a bad enough car wreck, neither am I. (Kyrian) I really hate your sense of humor. (Amanda)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Hate, Eye

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• Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin completed the manuscript of his immortal book "The Origin Of Species" he realized that the publication of his revolutionary concept of creation would rock the intellectual and religious worlds. So he became his own critic and spent another 15 years checking his data, challenging his reasoning, and criticizing his conclusions.

  Dale Carnegie

  Religious, Book, Rocks

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• danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Faces, Danger

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Simplest, Subjects

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• Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

  Anne Rice

  Mind, Trying, Demise

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