Immortality Quotes - Page 30

• How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.

  Washington Irving

  Character, Past, Thinking

  Washington Irving (2012). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

  Socrates

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• Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Perfection, Ego

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• With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

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• Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Dedication, Humanity

  John Ruskin (1858). “The Stones of Venice”, p.41

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• To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.

  Sappho

  Lying, Muse, Poet

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• Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

  Fay Weldon

  Circles, Forever, Sound

  Fay Weldon (1984). “The Life and Loves of a She-Devil”, Pantheon

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• Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

  Alfred Billings Street

  Hope, Lasting Happiness, Giving

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• The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.

  Marguerite Duras

  Death, Brother, Grief

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• After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Sleep, Progress, Crowns

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.306

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• it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Art, Museums, People

  Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”

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• public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

  Winifred Holtby

  Niece, Debt, May

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

  Anne Enright

  People, Different, Alive

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• The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Dog, Past, Lions

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!

  Adam Mickiewicz

  Stars, Hands, Sky

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• Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

  J. G. Holland

  Twins, Twin Sister, Eternity

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• The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Children, Character

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• In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Religious, Drama, Character

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• Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

  E. M. Delafield

  Believe, Fate, Reincarnation

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

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• The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Reason, Wells, Humans

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• The accessibility and effective immortality of actual information is a magnificent phenomenon, a beautiful extension of human consciousness. It is too bad people find so many ways to abuse the internet, but that's just how things are.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, People, Abuse

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Hands, Perfect

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• Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

  Epicurus

  Understanding, Add, Body

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• We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

  James A. Garfield

  Past, Giving, Forever

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