Immortality Quotes

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

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

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 the new is always left in the place of the old.

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

Blest be the art that can immortalize.

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

A good man never dies.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

immortality is a terrible curse.

How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.

When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

Immortality is overrated, living for an eternity would get really old.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of these other things are blocking her heart.

Men are immortal till their work is done.

Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

They can only kill us once.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

A book is the only immortality.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.