Immortal Quotes - Page 28

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Hardship

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• He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

  John Milton

  Christian, Running, Race

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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• The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Body, Spirit

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1647, Manonmani Publishers

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• The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

  Satchel Paige

  Change, Baseball, Class

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• Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Adventure, Mind, Doe

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• The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, Men, Years

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• Angels are innumerable heavenly beings - immortal and invincible creations of God. He is the Lord of the hosts of heaven.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• [Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

  Charles Stross

  Soul, Software, Humans

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.354, Penguin

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• Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Children, Thinking, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte, K. M. Weiland (2014). “Jane Eyre”, p.65, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Death, Butterfly, Two

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.501, Ageless Reads

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• Are there not hours of an immortal birth,— Bright visitations from a purer sphere, That cannot live in language? Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds?—

  Robert Montgomery

  Dream, Self, Heaven

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.144

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• When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

  Sivananda

  Heart, Men, Desire

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• The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

  Anne Rice

  Ghouls, Vampire, World

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• Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fate, Demise, Deeds

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• A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

  Francis Picabia

  Work, Gadgets, Lasts

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• Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Age, Ashes

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1255, Delphi Classics

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• A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.

  Bob Hope

  Religious, Men, One Line

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• And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?

  George Gissing

  Writing, Men, Nurse

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

  John Milton

  Caring, Air, Pageantry

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

  Michael Jackson

  Fashion, Culture, Great Music

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• The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Moon, Heaven, Generations

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.169

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• As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

  Max Beerbohm

  Teacher, Personality, Generations

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1954). “Around Theatres”

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• No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Hero, Men, World

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• When I live lucidly I see that I am both mortal and immortal. The person I appear to be in time had a beginning and will come to an end. But the deep self isn't in time, just like a dreamer isn't in a dream.

  Timothy Freke

  Dream, Time, Self

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