Immortality Quotes
577 quotes by 413 authors
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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 through my books.
— Isaac Asimov
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
— Honore de Balzac
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein…
— Joseph Addison
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Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud…
— Ambrose Bierce
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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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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
— Mel Brooks
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The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
— Herb Caen
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
— Woody Allen
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in…
— H. L. Mencken
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Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the…
— Rebecca West
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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 Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Where goest thou to seek for the Kingdom of God, asks Jesus of Nazareth, when it is there,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom…
— Antonio Gramsci
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A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.
— David Niven
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
— Peter Ustinov
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We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
— Woodrow Wyatt
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It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
— Roger Caras
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