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• Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Dying, John Brown

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.72, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.

  Humphry Davy

  Men, Thinking, May

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.452

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• The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.

  Humphry Davy

  Butterfly, Greek, Three

  Sir Humphry Davy (1870). “Salmonia: Or, Days of Fly Fishing. With Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo”, p.218

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• Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

  P. D. James

  Youth

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.211, Vintage

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• Reasoning from the common course of nature, and without supposing any new interposition of the Supreme Cause, which ought always to be excluded from philosophy; what is incorruptible must also be ingenerable. The soul, therefore, if immortal, existed before our birth: And if the former existence noways concerned us, neither will the latter.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Soul, Causes

  David Hume (1824). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... Containing Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays on the Immortality of the Soul, Suicide ... &c. A New Edition”, p.116

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• I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly put their childhood in their pockets and run off and away with it, to play on to the end of their days.

  Max Reinhardt

  Running, Believe, Play

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• When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

  Robert Adams

  Feelings, World, Awakening

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• I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Brain, Approach

  Dean Koontz (1992). “Hideaway”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Thinking, People

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

  Studs Terkel

  People, Generations, Stories

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• This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Hands, Lust

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• If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Blind, Spawn

  William Faulkner (2012). “A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena”, p.164, Random House

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• Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Names, Remembrance

  "Going Postal". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2004.

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• Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

  Gerard Way

  Death, Thinking, Dying

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• Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Book, Rebirth

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.31, Vintage Canada

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• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

  George Santayana

  Love, Memories, Passion

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• Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Book, Knowledge, Science

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• Tedium is the bane of immortality.

  Neil Lowe

  Crazy, Mad, Tedium

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• A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from the accumulated past. If you can be unattached to the past every moment, then you are always fresh, young, just born. You pulsate with life and that pulsation gives you immortality. You are immortal, only unaware of the fact.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Attachment, Giving

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• A man's immortality can be found in his children.

  Patricia Briggs

  Children, Men, Found

  Patricia Briggs (2004). “Raven's Shadow”, p.45, Penguin

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• Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Memories, Children, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (2014). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Giving, Alive, Enough

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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