Immortality Quotes

577 Immortality quotes by 398 unique authors

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake — Arthur Schopenhauer
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal. — R. Buckminster Fuller
There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be. — George S. Patton
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. — Thomas Browne
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells,… — Henry Ward Beecher
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one? — Sydney J. Harris
Lay plans as if we were to be immortal. — William James
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew… — Ambrose Bierce
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet… — Victor Hugo
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex… — John Updike
It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond? — Rupert Brooke
Blest be the art that can immortalize. — William Cowper
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last… — Fernando Pessoa
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We want to live forever, and we're getting there. — William J. Clinton
No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope… — John Keats
Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes. — George Meredith
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed. — Karl Kraus
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all. — Milan Kundera
The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being. — Lewis Mumford
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal. — Lewis Mumford
You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in… — Ernest Dimnet

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