Immortality Quotes - Page 27

• SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Giving, Peculiar, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.

  Sun Ra

  Space, Magic, Democracy

  "Sun Ra: Stranger from Outer Space" by Mike Walsh, missioncreep.com.

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• All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.

  Octavia Butler

  Children, Long, Honor

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• Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Taoism, Should

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• The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.

  Richard Bach

  Dies, One Thing, Destroyed

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• Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

  Epicurus

  Believe, Evil, Enjoy Life

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.

  Gerard Houllier

  Play, Today

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• The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  People, Soul, Months

  Speech fragment, 1794.

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• According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing the self, that is, by dropping his ego defences and committing metaphorical suicide, that a person can open up to different modes of being and relating and thereby transform himself into a pure essence of humanity. In so doing, he becomes free to recast himself as a much more joyful and productive person, and attains the only species of transcendence and immortality that is open to man.

  Neel Burton

  Suicide, Ignorance, Men

  FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Nov 08, 2013

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• Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Light, Meditation

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• The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

  George Santayana

  Facts, Born

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.805, The Floating Press

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• In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Pain, Agony

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• I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Feet, Imagination, Long

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• That whole thing about immortality, eternal love and flying is dark and sexy. When you're going through your sexual awakening, it's all a part of that.

  Kelly Overton

  Sexy, Dark, Flying

  Source: collider.com

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• In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

  Jay Michaelson

  Summer, Keys, Long

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

  Tilda Swinton

  Ideas, Long, Transformation

  "31 Things We Learned On Marvel’s Doctor Strange Set". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. March 10, 2016.

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• Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

  Allen W. Wood

  Belief, Pursuit, Cases

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebble in the lake, have their immortality in the acts of future generations.

  Raymond Cattell

  Children, Lakes, Forever

  Raymond Bernard Cattell (1972). “A new morality from science: beyondism”, Pergamon

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• No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Reputation, Accepted

  "A critic of one's own" by Tim Parks, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2003.

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• The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

  Hugh S. Johnson

  Government, World, Bureaucracy

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• Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

  Ken Burns

  Children, Writing, Letters

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• There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.

  John Keats

  Heart, Awful, Load

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 September 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 370

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• Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Calm, Calmness, Breaths

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

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• If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.

  Lydia M. Child

  Death, Children, People

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• "God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Soul, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

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