Absence Quote by Socrates

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

— Pindar

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

— Anonymous

“For all the glamour of living forever … immortality is really just a long curse. Finite life is precious; it’s fleeting and significant. But…

— Chelsea Fine

Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs.

— Edward Young

Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.

— Ge Hong

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

— Seneca the Younger

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faithfulness, faith, all of the words that so few people live, you must live. Only then are you worthy of immortality.

— Frederick Lenz

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

— Hannah More

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its…

— Edward Everett

Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble…

— Sivananda

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right…

— Ambrose Bierce