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• When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

  James Montgomery

  Men, Yield, Good Man

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1829). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: Complete in One Volume”

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• Life is the childhood of immortality.

  Daniel A. Poling

  Childhood, Life Is

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• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

  Wernher von Braun

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
  And for my soul, what can it do to that,
  Being a thing immortal as itself?

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Hamlet And Ophelia, Horatio

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 65

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• Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

  John Quincy Adams

  Moving, Men, Fire

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• The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

  Rajneesh

  Over You, Teach, Within You

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• I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it.

  Rod Serling

  Littles

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, World, Metamorphosis

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• I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

  Egon Schiele

  Art, Believe, Creatures

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• That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.

  Woody Allen

  Art, Real, Nice

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• If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loss, Men, Space

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.55, University of Chicago Press

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• All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Struggle, Soul, Unrest

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• Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Secret, Vedas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1589, Manonmani Publishers

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• The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Knowing, Forever, Brain

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• Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Men, Mind

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• Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Funeral, Fame

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.428, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

  Umberto Eco

  Philosophy, Past, Self

  Umberto Eco (1986). “Faith in Fakes: Essays”, Harvill Secker

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• Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

  Plato

  Children, Plato, Spring

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• Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

  J. G. Holland

  Waiting, Ifs

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• Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.

  Mary Cantwell

  People, Suspicion, Westerners

  Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces:
  If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible-the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality-since it seems evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Simple, Odds, Long

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• (there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Mean, Escaping, Looks

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• If the oncoming mutation to interstellar immortality is screwed up by the politicians, it will be because those of us who see the opportunities in modern science are not adroit enough to outmaneuver the forces of inertia, stupidity and greed. Well, if we're not intelligent enough to overcome such obstacles, then we don't deserve to carry off the mutation at this stage of evolution.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Stupidity

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Animal, Creating, Bird

  "The Authority". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,

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• If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed.

  Maria Theresa

  Compassion, Wish, Earth

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