Immortality Quotes - Page 7

• I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Generations, Significant

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• Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Resurrection, Christ, Graves

  "My Religion". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Chapter 8, 1884.

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• Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Poet, Truest

  "Caxtoniana". Essay XXVII, 1863.

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• We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Aging, Conformity

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• We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

  Max More

  Dream, Two, Alchemist

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• This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Soul, Shadow

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 168), 2013.

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• There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Virtue, Ifs

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

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• The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Brain, Approach

  Dean Koontz (1992). “Hideaway”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Thinking, People

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

  Studs Terkel

  People, Generations, Stories

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• This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Hands, Lust

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• If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Blind, Spawn

  William Faulkner (2012). “A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena”, p.164, Random House

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• Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Names, Remembrance

  "Going Postal". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2004.

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• Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

  Gerard Way

  Death, Thinking, Dying

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• 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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• Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

  Sergei Diaghilev

  Art, World, Wonder

  "Sergei Diaghilev: first lord of the dance" by Luke Jennings, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• God’s purpose is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”2 That is fundamental to all we do. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in things that we find fascinating or become so consumed by mundane responsibilities that we lose sight of God’s objectives. As you consistently focus your life on the most basic principles, you will gain an understanding of what you are to do, and you will produce more fruit for the Lord and more happiness for yourself.

  Richard G. Scott

  Responsibility, Men, Sight

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• One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Civilization, Decay, Moments

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• If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

  Nikola Tesla

  Humanity, Secret, Genius

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Believe, Ideas, Alive

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Exercise, Imagination

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

  Lu Tong

  Tea, Flavour, Not Interested

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• It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Children, Loneliness, Needs

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• We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Hate

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• Tedium is the bane of immortality.

  Neil Lowe

  Crazy, Mad, Tedium

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