Immortal Quotes
645 quotes by 470 authors
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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt…
— Joseph Addison
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its…
— Annie Besant
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Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to…
— Annie Besant
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Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine;…
— Annie Besant
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and…
— David Bowie
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
— Samuel Butler
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Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low…
— Lord Byron
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
— Herb Caen
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Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it…
— Giacomo Casanova
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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
— Tom Clancy
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In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot perish. It will…
— David McMurtrie Gregg
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There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have…
— Dan Simmons
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The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his…
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
— Edmund Spenser
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That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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