Buddhism Quote by Annie Besant

“The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the religious soul…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

— Anonymous

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

— Gregory Maguire

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take…

— Anthony Burgess

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other…

— Jorge Luis Borges

So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

— Herb Caen

“Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is…

— Simone Weil

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating…

— Anonymous

“The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world,” says an old Buddhist…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“On the philosophic side the disciples of the Great Master dashed themselves against the eternal rocks of the Vedas and could not crush them,…

— Swami Vivekananda