Immortality Quotes - Page 9

• God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Men, Soul, Looks

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• Literature is the immortality of speech.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Literature, Speech

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• We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

  John Owen

  Religious, Design, Heaven

  John Owen (1828). “Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded”, p.204

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• Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No self, but pure awareness, and you have a taste of eternity and immortality.

  Rajneesh

  Self, Space, Mind

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• They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Memorial Day, Spring, Inspiration

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.96, tredition

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• It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

  Robert Southey

  Dream, Nature, Men

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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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• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

  Walter Gropius

  Claims, Contribution, Has Beens

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• When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

  Robert Adams

  Feelings, World, Awakening

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• Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Destiny, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4260, Library of Alexandria

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• What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Time, Believe, Arrogance

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• It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.

  Gerard Way

  Ideas, Vampire, Beast

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• A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from the accumulated past. If you can be unattached to the past every moment, then you are always fresh, young, just born. You pulsate with life and that pulsation gives you immortality. You are immortal, only unaware of the fact.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Attachment, Giving

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• An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.

  John of Damascus

  Angel, Intelligent, Essence

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• Tedium is the bane of immortality.

  Neil Lowe

  Crazy, Mad, Tedium

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• Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Book, Knowledge, Science

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

  George Santayana

  Love, Memories, Passion

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• Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord’s desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Men, Baptism, Desire

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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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• 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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• 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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