Immortality Quotes

• I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

  James Joyce

  Writing, Way, Arguing

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.10, Oxford Paperbacks

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• If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Achievement, Made

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Hero, Dying

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• The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Memories

  "Fictional character: Bruce Lee". "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• For love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Romantic, Romance

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• The first requisite for immortality is death.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Firsts

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

  Robert Breault

  Abiding Faith, Conditions, Temporary

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Agency, Forever

  Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Henry Mackenzie, Horace Walpole (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.373

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

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Immortal

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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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• 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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• 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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• Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.

  Dinah

  Teach, Dies, Mortals

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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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• 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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• Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Poet, Truest

  "Caxtoniana". Essay XXVII, 1863.

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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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• 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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• The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Enemy

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