Immortal Quotes - Page 8

• Just out of curiosity, can an immortal choke to death on a bagel? (Francesca)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Curiosity, Bagels, Choke

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, L. A. Banks, Susan Squires, Ronda Thompson (2006). “Love at First Bite”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

  George Santayana

  Effort, Mind, Age

  George Santayana (1932). “The Life of Reason”, p.74, Library of Alexandria

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• Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.

  Sigmund Freud

  Art, Philosophy, Believe

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• They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

  John Muir

  Men, Thinking, Soul

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• We use the word "God" as representative of that which is timeless, immortal and infinite, that which produces order, which holds together the nucleus of an atom, which gives us life and death, neither masculine nor feminine, not a person, beyond any comprehension.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Order, Life And Death

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Sweet, Children, Spring

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• Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall.

  Emily Dickinson

  Wall, Glasses, Letters

  Emily Dickinson (1959). “Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst”, Turtleback

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• Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Peace, Spring, Reflection

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• Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

  John James Ingalls

  Flower, Blood, Battle

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Nature, Pain, Heart

  Erasmus Darwin (1825). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts ... The Economy of Vegetation, and The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes”, p.7

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• If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.

  Joseph McCabe

  Real, Drama, Men

  "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.

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• Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher seemed to entitle him to more than mortal honors. A legend into the authenticity of which we will abstain from inquiring, asserted that his mother, Perictione, a pure virgin, suffered an immaculate conception through the influence of Apollo. The god declared to Ariston, to whom she was about to be married, the parentage of the child.

  John William Draper

  Mother, Children, Names

  John William Draper (1876). “History of the Intellectual Development of Europe”, p.151

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• Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal souls; and, on the level of the universe as a whole, that our cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God.

  Corliss Lamont

  Mean, Men, Soul

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• My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.

  Blair Underwood

  Fall, Men, Years

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• The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that people have overthrown the gods and at last God himself. "The truth" outlasts the downfall of the world of gods, for it is the immortal soul of this transitory world of gods; it is Deity itself.

  Max Stirner

  People, Soul, Atheism

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.311, Cambridge University Press

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• Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

  Homer

  Men, Race, Earth

  "Iliad". Epic poem by Homer, c. 750 BC.

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• Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

  Herman Melville

  Elderly, Youth, Grows

  Herman Melville (1924). “The Works of Herman Melville: Redburn”

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• Wander a whole summer if you can. Thousands of God's blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy laden year, give a month at least. The time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.

  John Muir

  Summer, Taken, Blessing

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• The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Soul, Eternity, Reincarnation

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.692, e-artnow

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• I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Karma, Believe, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.131, Printed for H. Colborn

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• I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm going, then it won't be a vacation.'

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Vacation, Nba

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• True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

  William Barclay

  Men, Spirit, Worship

  William Barclay (1956). “The Gospel of John”

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• Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

  Ben Jonson

  Truth, Men, Use

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.746

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• A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

  George Eliot

  Children, Thinking, Chance

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.91

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• Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.

  Marcus Garvey

  Dust, Body, Crumbling

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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