"Literature is the immortality of speech." — August Wilhelm von Schlegel

More Immortality Quotes

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• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
• One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. — Honore de Balzac
• The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. — Charles Baudelaire
• The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind… — Joseph Addison
• Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if… — Ambrose Bierce
• My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. — Jorge Luis Borges
• To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is… — Jorge Luis Borges
• Immortality is a by-product of good work. — Mel Brooks
• The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. — Herb Caen
• I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. — Woody Allen
• When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever… — H. L. Mencken

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