Immortality Quotes

Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.

It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Where there is life, there is hope.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

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 would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

The first condition of immortality is death.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

I would like immortality.

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.