“Of the eternal questions, nothing else: is there a God, is there immortality? And those who do not believe in God will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It… — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
“The disciple asked: Master, I am looking for the secret of immortality, do you have it? The master replied: I have not,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Included in human nature is an intense love. Even, because of the power of imagination, man fancies a sort of immortality in… — Bediuzzaman Copy Share Image
Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition… [I]f you should happen to write an… — Frances Brooke Copy Share Image
A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“Saracen The Knight: There will be a cost. Saint-Germain: Anything. I will pay anything to get my wife back. Saracen: Even your… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“The disciple asked: Master, you are quite old now, will you buy a tombstone for yourself? The master replied: If I buy… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“What she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“There were more recent markings as well-initials scratched over the pictographs, some with dates. people were always wanting to announce their existence… — Kristen Britain Copy Share Image
“Maybe, as Mizuko said, we won't even really die, just carry on in the feedback loop we are stuck in. Instead of… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness.… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“If it had only been for the immortality gene, humanity would have eventually managed to turn it back on. At one point… — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
“For all the glamour of living forever … immortality is really just a long curse. Finite life is precious; it’s fleeting and… — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Immortality is a belief grounded upon other men's sayings, that they knew it supernaturally; or that they knew those who knew them… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image