Immortality Quotes

577 Immortality quotes by 398 unique authors

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
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality. — Gerard Houllier
If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes… — Albert Pike
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying,… — Charles Lindbergh
Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die. — Dinah
Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth,… — Heinrich Heine
Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record… — Mike Tyson
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality. — Elie Wiesel
The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed. — Richard Bach
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know that we are dead.… — Andre Maurois
The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because… — Plato
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. — Mortimer Adler
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman… — Washington Irving
People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something. — Tom Stoppard
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before… — Saul Bellow
If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion. — Unknown Author
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had… — William Ernest Henley
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality. — Publilius Syrus
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. — Charles Caleb Colton
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is… — Sydney J. Harris
The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps,… — Samuel Johnson

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