Immortality Quotes

577 Immortality quotes by 398 unique authors

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. — Antonio Porchia
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. — George Santayana
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum… — Hu Shih
Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived. — Sylvester Stallone
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. — James Thurber
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material. — Swami Vivekananda
The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our… — Henry B. Eyring
I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the… — Amy Tan
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the… — Woody Allen
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time.… — Charles de Lint
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. — Thomas Campbell
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as… — Carl Sagan
The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality. — Dean Koontz
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but… — Marcel Proust
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation… — Studs Terkel
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology… — Don DeLillo
...if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above… — William Faulkner
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? — Terry Pratchett
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying — Gerard Way
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat. — Mark Twain
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth. — Alberto Manguel
A man's immortality can be found in his children. — Patricia Briggs
Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always… — Peter Kropotkin
You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot… — Ernest Hemingway

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