Immortality Quotes - Page 11

• Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

  Fanny Kemble

  Soul, Abhorrent, Theory

  Fanny Kemble (1882). “Records of Later Life”

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• Of what use are laws, inoperative through public immortality?
  [Lat., Quid leges sine moribus
  Vanae proficiunt?]

  Horace

  Law, Use

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• Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

  George Eliot

  Echoes, Soul, Perpetual

  George Eliot (1871). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.287

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• Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Sleep, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.71

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• Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

  May Sarton

  Book, Thinking, Life After Death

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• The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for life and immortality. Now may each man, who has the sentence of Adam upon him, know that he is a kinsman of the Son of God. Now may he follow Him; and so, when the darkness is thickest around him and within, not walk in it, but see the Light of Life.

  Frederick Denison Maurice

  Son, Men, Light

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• I am conscious of eternal life.

  Theodore Parker

  Conscious, Eternal Life, Eternal

  Theodore Parker (1850). “A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846”, p.26

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• Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Pals, Mediocrity, Matter

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.18, Granta Books

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• Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

  Woody Allen

  People, Dying, Want

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• The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West individual immortality is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

  Annie Besant

  Buddhist, Mistake, Buddhism

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• When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

  Charles Finch

  Oxford, Flow, Students

  Charles Finch (2008). “The September Society”, p.45, Macmillan

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• So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life And Death, Feel Good, Feelings

  "Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway, (Ch. 1), 1932.

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• I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

  Woody Allen

  Dying, Achieve, Discworld

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• When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.

  Francois Rabelais

  Dwelling, Soul, World

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• Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Change, Proof, Given

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• Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

  Deepak Chopra

  World, Failing, Lord

  "Not My Job: Deepak Chopra Plays 'Yes, We Cannes'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 1, 2013.

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• ... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting, often, of lights, streets, houses, human beings, beautiful or grotesque, which will weave itself into the moment for ever.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Light, People

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.27, Oxford University Press

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• Beyond learning and unlearning is awareness, and beyond awareness is consciousness, and beyond consciousness is immortality, and beyond immortality is dharma and beyond dharma is nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Consciousness, Awareness

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• We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Spring, Thinking, Stronger

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

  James Boswell

  Strong, Thinking, Wife

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• None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Flower, Years, Ivory

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

  May Sinclair

  Men, Average, Imagination

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• women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men. ... But the by-product of such anonymity may be immortality, for women are also less likely to find themselves written up on the obituary page.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Men, May, Pages

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• One day liberation will come, and it won't be a day; it won't be a year; it won't be a time, a place or a condition. It will be immortality reflecting through you. What will you do then?

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Years, Suffering

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• We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but an invisible line by the resurrection of Christ. That He who died has been raised again and ever lives in the form of a complete humanity is the fundamental fact in the revelation of the Christian doctrine of immortality.

  B. B. Warfield

  Christian, Easter, Wall

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