Immortality Quotes - Page 24

• When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Vanity, Giving, Humanity

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Men, Cost

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• Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

  Dan Simmons

  Identity, Tests, Acid

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.231, Spectra

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• Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ideas, Soul, Might

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson (1997). “Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876”, p.734, Northwestern University Press

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• On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Fleas, Necks

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• Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Distance, Men, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.201

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• Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Rome, Purpose, Genius

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.239

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• Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.

  James Anthony Froude

  Self, Soul, Fling

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.141

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• Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Meditation, Darkness

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• The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Dark, Shining

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• Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Laughing, Awareness

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• Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.

  e. e. cummings

  Suicide, Country, Artist

  "I: Six Nonlectures". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1953.

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• We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

  Elie Wiesel

  Secret, Stills, Knows

  "Heart to Heart with Elie Wiesel". Interview with Nadine Epstein, www.momentmag.com. June 20, 2013.

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• Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Death, Waiting Rooms, Robes

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.140

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• The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Running, Pain, Delight

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.75

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• Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

  William Morley Punshon

  Past, Lasts, Praise

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• Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.

  Edward de Bono

  Spring, Ideas, Existence

  Edward de Bono (2014). “Lateral Thinking: An Introduction”, p.15, Random House

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• We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

  Ann Landers

  Death, Dying, Needs

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• We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

  Austin O'Malley

  Fire, Gains, Youth

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• There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.

  Michelle Forbes

  Feelings, Youth, Excited

  "Q&A – Michelle Forbes (Mitch Larsen)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Disappointment, Wings, Promise

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• For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Lonely, Honesty

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home

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• There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

  John Quincy Adams

  Wise, Men, Sharks

  Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.432, Boston, Wilkins, Carter,

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• I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

  Edward Abbey

  Death, Believe, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code--thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come.

  Timothy Leary

  Technology, Dna, World

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