I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know? — Christopher Lambert Copy Share Image
“Human beings experience sadness because they want what is beyond human ability – absolute control and an immortal life.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Sufficient for my immortality is God, for He is my Eternal God and my Eternal Creator, the Eternal Giver of my existence,… — Said Nursi Copy Share Image
To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal… — Werner Von Braun Copy Share Image
“If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Of course, immortality of the soul-- the bare soul, cleansed of any personality traces-- is rarely what is desired in the yearning… — James P. Carse Copy Share Image
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“He stopped me with his hand at my jaw, thumb against my chin. “Sometimes, people must adapt. Immortality doesn’t make the things… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I do think it's really tough being super-rich, really hard-working and wanting to get some sort of immortality by passing on the… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
![“Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].” quote by Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c8d/alan-lightman-2270_cost_such-is-the-cost-of-immortality-no-perso_1378362.jpg)
