Immortality Quotes - Page 19

• Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Enlightenment, Hinduism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside the immortality that had been granted. For such immortality is eternally preserved by participation in life, since all life is genuine and preserved by appropriate food. The food of that blessed life is 'the bread that came down from heaven and gives life to the world' (Jn. 6:33), just as the inerrant Word Himself declares about Himself in the Gospels.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Blessed, Giving

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• If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Son, Watches

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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• For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

  Marilyn Manson

  Keys, Transformation, Longevity

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• It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

  Vernon Howard

  Wise, Ambition, Defeat

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• A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

  Friedrich Schiller

  Healthy, Needs

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• Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.

  Bill Lee

  Life, Running, Stress

  Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.69, Crown Archetype

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• Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Needs, Stones, Way

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• I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Doors, Giving, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.107, Library of Alexandria

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• To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Forever, Desire

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Men, Cost

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• It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Ambition, Reality, Views

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.

  Sara Shepard

  Said, Darling

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• ‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Wings, Roots

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• I’ll never die", he said. Before I could protest, Lucas put two fingers on my lips, his smile seemed to fill the room with lights and I realized he was telling a deeper kind of truth then I’d ever known before “You’ll live forever and being remembered by you is the only immortality I’ll ever need if I only live on as a part of you – Bianca, that’s my idea of heaven

  Claudia Gray

  Ideas, Two, Light

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• Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.161, New World Library

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• You'll live forever, and being remembered by is the only immortality I'll ever need. If i only live on as a part of you--Bianca, that's my idea of Heaven

  Claudia Gray

  Ideas, Forever, Heaven

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• I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Believe, Soul

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.157, Matthew Gordon

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• I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

  Edith Hamilton

  Men, Greek, Soul

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• Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Baby, Absence, Said

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• How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, Winter, Would Be

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

  Paul Erdos

  Discovery, Way, Forgotten

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• There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

  John Quincy Adams

  Wise, Men, Sharks

  Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.432, Boston, Wilkins, Carter,

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• For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Lonely, Honesty

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home

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• Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error. They think they'll find another way. I'm not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire.

  Adam Gollner

  Book, Thinking, Forever

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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