Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality…The… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Men's lives are short . The hard man and his cruelties will be Cursed behind his back and mocked in death. But… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees… — John Muir Copy Share Image
[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them,… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living… — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
“The grandest mountain prospect that the eye can range over is appointed to annihilation. The smallest human interest that the pure heart… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We've always used that as a goal - the record that literally every single track on it could be a hit. A… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“People learn best through experience, it's why we're here. When you're young and full of immortality, we overlook the obvious, but embrace… — Everett Peacock Copy Share Image
“The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think I can really believe in doomsday; I could hardly believe in rewards and punishments, in heaven or hell. As… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened,… — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole… — William Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families.… — Harold Kushner Copy Share Image
The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
ʺWho′s a spirit user?ʺ said Robert. ʺFormer spirit user,ʺ said Victor, ʺShe became a Strigoi to get away from it.ʺ ʺYes .… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and… — Candace Fleming Copy Share Image
I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's only fashion, that in the end… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often… — Irving Townsend Copy Share Image
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“It slowly dawns on me what it is, the sensation that has bridged the gap between how I saw the world yesterday… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image