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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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• Literature is the immortality of speech.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Literature, Speech

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• The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Friendship, Beautiful, Character

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• None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wisdom, Believe, Unconscious

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• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Achievement, Agnostic, Strive

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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• I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly put their childhood in their pockets and run off and away with it, to play on to the end of their days.

  Max Reinhardt

  Running, Believe, Play

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• Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Flower, Men, Dust

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• The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

  Kate Wilhelm

  Philosophical, Ideas, Space

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• Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.

  Paul Carus

  Truth Is, Immortal, Attainment

  Paul Carus (1902). “Nirvāna, a Story of Buddhist Psychology”, p.54, Asian Educational Services

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• We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Elements, Humans

  Aristotle, Roger Crisp (2000). “Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is this fun... this is just the greatest everybody should live it that way.

  Ray Manzarek

  Fun, Joy, Alive

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• It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Reading, People, Touching

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• Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality.

  Colin Jordan

  Past, Men, Members

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• Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears new fruit and so does not die. We are like grain. We never die because we are One with Nature. To understand this is to comprehend Immortality--the Apotheosis of the Human Race. It is with this conviction that I have lived my Life. My Life is a store of my experience, a Life of aspirations, sorrows, joys and triumphs.

  Martiros Saryan

  Flower, Race, Joy

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• Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Love Life, Thinking, Existential

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “A very easy death”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

  Laozi

  Ambition, Doors, Ties

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, Light, Reason

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• Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, Children, Women

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

  George Wald

  Men, Pursued, Ideals

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• A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Kelsey Grammer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.

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• Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Soul, Sainthood

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.

  Albert Camus

  Moon, World, Needs

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• If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter.

  Wang Yangming

  Heart, Eye, Years

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• Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.

  Wang Yangming

  Afterlife, Effort, Heaven

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