Immortality Quotes
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.
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.
Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.
Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.
I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.
IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.
Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.
People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!
Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.
Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.
However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.
When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.
If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the only cause that you can't die for.
There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.