Immortal Quotes - Page 18

• ... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.

  George Santayana

  Soul, Faces, Immortality

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• ... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Crazy, Humanity, Taste

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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• There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.

  Walter Bagehot

  Shoes, Ties, Hands

  Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1959). “Walter Bagehot: A Study of His Life and Thought, Together with a Selection from His Political Writings”, London : Eyre & Spottiswoode

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• All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
  All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow,
  Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Success, Pain, Grief

  Matthew Arnold (1854). “Poems”, p.226

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• To become immortal, and then to die.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Dies

  Jean Luc Godard, Dudley Andrew (1987). “Breathless”, p.105, Rutgers University Press

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• If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.448

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• When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and not trulycumulative treasure; where immortal works stand side by side with anthologies which did not survive their month, and cobweb and mildew have already spread from these to the binding of those; and happily I am reminded of what poetry is,--I perceive that Shakespeare and Milton did not foresee into what company they were to fall. Alas! that so soon the work of a true poet should be swept into such a dust-hole!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Dust, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.256, Delphi Classics

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• Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished--their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal? Live for something.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Moving, Men, Light

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• Are we not all immortal till our work is done?

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Done

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.113

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• Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.

  George Berkeley

  Nature, Mean, Simple

  George Berkeley (2015). “A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Be mine that silent calm repast,
  A conscience cheerful to the last:
  That tree which bears immortal fruit,
  Without a canker at the root;
  That friend which never fails the just,
  When other friends desert their trust.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Roots, Tree, Cheerful

  John Gilbert Cooper, Nathaniel Cotton (1822). “The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton”, p.274

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• No one holds command over me.
  No Man. No God.
  No King. No Prince.
  What is a claim of age?
  For ones who are immortal
  What is a claim of power?
  For ones who defy death
  Call your damnable hunt.
  And we shall see
  Whom I drag screaming to hell with me.

  Unknown

  Fear, Men, Atheism

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• I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Morning, Believe, Science

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• Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Escaping, Extinction

  Sir Charles Lyell (1853). “Principles of geology ; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology”, p.696

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• If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

  Rachel Cusk

  Love Is, Hatred, Reverse

  Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.82, Macmillan

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• With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rose, Joy, Hilarity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

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• Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.

  Mary Cantwell

  People, Immortality, Suspicion

  Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A death-like sleep,
  A gentle wafting to immortal life.

  John Milton

  Death, Sleep, Immortal Life

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.446

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• It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.

  Bonaventure

  Heart, Son, Men

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• It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

  Han Suyin

  Unique, Thinking, Lovers

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• I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

  Val Kilmer

  Thinking, Real Genius, Said

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• Having agreed to play Elrond, I realized how much had to be worked out about this character: the idea of portraying someone who is immortal, for one thing; plus the fact he is noble, wise, powerful, good - and beautiful! I began to think that he was altogether impossible to play!

  Hugo Weaving

  Beautiful, Wise, Powerful

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• A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we go to rejoin them and to enjoy with them the society of the blessed. Oh, how sweetly the heart rests in this immortal hope!

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Death, Blessed, Heart

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.73

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• In a way I'm probably immortal.

  Johan Cruijff

  Way

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• In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Children, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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