Immortality Quotes - Page 13

• Meditation is the royal road to the attainment of freedom, a mysterious ladder that reaches from earth to heaven, darkness to light, mortality to Immortality.

  Sivananda

  Light, Meditation, Heaven

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• Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

  Michael Shermer

  Machines, Unattainable, Human Nature

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• Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Happy Life, Thinking, Unhappy

  Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.191, Lion Fiction

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• There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods.

  Corliss Lamont

  Creating, Giving, Imagination

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• How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Two, Forget

  National Anti-Slavery Standard, 27 Apr. 1867

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• The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Ocean, Soul, Littles

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1956). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We have seen the Truth. We have felt the Truth. But the most important thing is to grow into the Truth and become totally one with the Truth. If we are concentrating on God, we may feel God right in front of us or besides us. When we are meditating, we are bound to feel Infinity, Eternity, Immortality within us. But when we are contemplating, we will see that we ourselves are Infinity, Eternity, Immortality.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Important, Infinity

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.265, Aum Publications

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• Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

  Iris Chang

  Book, Way, Ultimate

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• During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

  Mika

  Kings, Fear, Writing

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• I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality. On Christmas Eve I wrote 'bankrupt' at the foot. And it was on Christmas morning 1895, after I had celebrated three Masses, while the bells of the parish church were ringing out the Christmas message of peace, that, with great pain, I found myself far out from the familiar land--homeless, aimlessly drifting. But the bells were right after all; from that hour on I have been wholly free from the nightmare of doubt that had lain on me for ten years.

  Joseph McCabe

  Morning, Pain, Feet

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• I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

  James Drummond Burns

  Years, Dying, Twenties

  "His Last Words", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 388-90, 1922.

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• It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Graphic Design, Mathematics, Mark

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Firsts, Achieve, Obvious

  Aphorisms (1905)

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• We who choose to surround ourselves
  with lives even more temporary than our
  own, live within a fragile circle;
  easily and often breached.
  Unable to accept its awful gaps,
  we would still live no other way.
  We cherish memory as the only
  certain immortality, never fully
  understanding the necessary plan.

  Irving Townsend

  Memories, Circles, Understanding

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• Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the
  only cause that you can't die for.

  Leonard Orr

  Mistake, Forever, Causes

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• The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.

  Robert Montgomery

  Air, Names, Theatre

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• Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

  Felix Dennis

  Tree, Plant, Plant A Tree

  "Whosoever Plants A Tree". Poem by Felix Dennis, www.poemhunter.com.

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• The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Grief, Book, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions”

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• The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Worry, Soul

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• We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Responsibility, Men

  "This Is the Work of the Master" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. May 1995.

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• With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice. Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.

  Alan Lightman

  Daughter, Mother, Courage

  "Einstein's Dreams". Book by Alan Lightman, 1992.

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• It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.

  Maureen O'Sullivan

  Children, Nice, Appreciate

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• God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Men, Soul, Looks

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• The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Death, Lying

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

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• Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

  George Crabbe

  Lying, Slumber, Pages

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.38

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