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Immortality Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he…
- The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
- Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
- The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
- Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
- What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
More Immortality Quotes
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. — Honore de Balzac
- The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. — Charles Baudelaire
- The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its… — Joseph Addison
- Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would… — Ambrose Bierce
- My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. — Jorge Luis Borges
- To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible,… — Jorge Luis Borges
- Immortality is a by-product of good work. — Mel Brooks
- The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. — Herb Caen
- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. — Woody Allen
- When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do… — H. L. Mencken