Immortality Quotes

577 Immortality quotes by 398 unique authors

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and… — Joseph Addison
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality. — George Crabbe
Literature is the immortality of speech. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal — Donald E. Williams, Jr.
The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains;… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality. — Sigmund Freud
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. — Edgar Lee Masters
I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly put their childhood… — Max Reinhardt
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens… — Stephen De Staebler
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These… — Kate Wilhelm
Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana. — Paul Carus
We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality… — Aristotle
You dont make music for immortality you make music for the moment of capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet earth, WOW! is… — Ray Manzarek
It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people. — Sarah Strohmeyer
Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go… — Colin Jordan
Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time comes and then it bears… — Martiros Saryan
Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death. — Simone de Beauvoir
Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that… — Frederick Lenz
The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and… — Laozi
God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason. — Immanuel Kant
"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal… — Kelsey Grammer
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. — Jean Giraudoux

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