Immortality Quotes

• I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

  James Joyce

  Writing, Way, Arguing

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.10, Oxford Paperbacks

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• If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Achievement, Made

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Hero, Dying

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• One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Secret, Mind

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

  Herb Caen

  Forever, Goes On, Immortal

  Herb Caen, Irene Mecchi (1992). “Herb Caen's San Francisco, 1976-1991”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Memories

  "Fictional character: Bruce Lee". "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

  Lewis Mumford

  Growth, Birth, Renewal

  Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Would Be, Duration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

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

  Thomas Browne

  Immortal Soul, May, Be Confident

  Sir Thomas Browne (1658). “Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths”

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• Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Stars, Long

  John Muir (2015). “My First Summer in the Sierra (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.22, e-artnow

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• Immortality is a by-product of good work.

  Mel Brooks

  Good Work, Products

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

  Hannah Arendt

  Effort, Trying, World

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Nature, Assurance

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• Men are immortal till their work is done.

  David Livingstone

  Men, Done, Immortal

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, letter describing the death of Bishop Mackenzie in Africa (March 1862), (pp. 388-390), 1922.

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• Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religion, Immortal Soul, Doe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2417, Library of Alexandria

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• If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!

  Eugene Delacroix

  Different, Would Be, Actors

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• The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Becoming, Transformation

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• The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Soul, Feelings, Matter

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wise, Men, Obscurity

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• It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

  Joseph Addison

  Plato, Fall, Men

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

  Stephen King

  "It". Book by Stephen King, 1986.

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• To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mistake, Desire, Eternal

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