“McAllister looked up into her face, his eyes blazing with anger. At last, his composure cracked. ‘That’s right,’ he shouted back. ‘My… — Nigel Holloway Copy Share Image
These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
“That moment when this heart.. stops.. almost as if it never existed. When every.. breathe.. slows down.. almost as if you never… — Hafsa Shah Copy Share Image
Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“I love you, Sofia,” I whispered. “And I honestly believe that I could never love another woman for the rest of my… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“[A] right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it an… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If… — Wang Yangming Copy Share Image
“Boiled food is life,’ Levi-Strauss writes, ‘roast food death.’ He reports finding countless examples in the world’s folklore of ‘cauldrons of immortality,’… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I don’t need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp. It helps us remember that what we do here, now,… — C.M. Hayden Copy Share Image
“I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find… — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Hans: [Y]ou can't conceive what a great fellow I'm going to be. The seed of immortality has sprouted within me. Deronda: Only… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I am not talking about immortality now," Perenelle said, her Breton accent thickening. "We have lived for centuries, Nicholas, centuries. I am… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Flaevynn wants only to take Treoir so she can bathe in the pool of immortality that runs beneath the castle.” – Cathbad… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“What is life without death, Beneficent? You of all people can answer that question. A never-ending orgy of emptiness that you stuff… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Hmph. Yes. Him. He had the nerve to turn down our offer of immortality and tell us to pay better attention to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning;… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the… — Adam Gollner Copy Share Image
“Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“For a hunter, her shields were surprisingly weak, as if she somehow still saw innocence in the world. Then she will kill… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're the leader, you have to communicate the message of immortality to your people. Because I believe if a leader hides… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Do not believe that others will die, not you… I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do:… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Masonry inculcates faith in immortality as indispensable to moral living and urges its members to qualify for eternal life by the practice… — William E Hammond Copy Share Image
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“We are not interested in developing eternity or immortality, or in preventing being sick or being born. We are interested in doing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image