Aphorism Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

— Publilius Syrus

Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

— Francis Quarles

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to…

— Margaret Fuller

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

— Philip James Bailey

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

— George Chapman

“The worst punishment for immortal beings is immortality revocation thus fall into lower life.”

— Toba Beta

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“From where we stand, immortality and death are synonymous: a two-headed monster of semantics. Having no value for us except as “endness,” they generate…

— Thomas Ligotti

A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

— David Niven

“Death tore them apart. Immortality bound them together”

— Marie Symeou

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

— Walter Raleigh