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Immortality Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.
- Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such…
- Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn…
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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… — 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 and its… — Joseph Addison
- Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would… — 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 divine, terrible,… — 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 I do… — H. L. Mencken