Immortality Quotes

577 Immortality quotes by 398 unique authors

And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita. — Vladimir Nabokov
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is. — Gregory Maguire
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living. — Saint Augustine
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. — Mitch Albom
I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you… — Vladimir Nabokov
By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. — Karen Joy Fowler
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and… — Edwin Markham
Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And… — Betty Smith
I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well,… — Vladimir Nabokov
Death is not the end Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide ...… — Sri Chinmoy
What happened instead was that the tree fell in love with him and began to murmur fondly of the joy to be found in the… — Peter S. Beagle
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds,… — Jorge Luis Borges
This life is but the childhood of our immortality. — Denis Johnson
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live… — Alan Lightman
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is… — Jack London
It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would… — Boris Pasternak
Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things… — Barbara Kingsolver
And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on… — Boris Pasternak
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July. — Arthur Miller
The only secret people keep is immortality. — Emily Dickinson
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said… — Margaret Atwood

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