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• Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

  Karl Kraus

  Tolerate

  "Sayings and Contradictions" by Karl Kraus, 1909.

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• Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

  Max Muller

  Bridges, Arches, Pillars

  "Chips from a German Workshop, Volume I: Essays on the Science of Religion". Book by Max Müller, p. 45, 1867.

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• Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Museums, Names

  "What else can you spend your money on?" by Peter Aspden, www.ft.com. May 26, 2007.

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• Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Form

  Peter Ustinov (1965). “Five plays”

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• If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

  James Thurber

  Dog, Nature, Animal

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• Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

  Susan Ertz

  Inspirational, Death, Sunday

  Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

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• Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Independent, Men, Ideas

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• I feel that I was made to complete things. To accomplish only a mass of beginnings and attempts would be to make a total failure of life. Perfection is the heritage with which my Creator has endowed me, and since this short life does not give completeness, I must have immortal life in which to find it.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Short Life, Giving, Perfection

  Randolph Sinks Foster (1870). “Beyond the Grave: Being Three Lectures Before Chautauqua Assembly in 1878, with Papers on Recognition in the Future State, and Other Addenda”, p.92

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• What I have done cannot be taken from me.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Taken, Done

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• A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

  William Whewell

  Attitude, Men, Soul

  "Platonic Dialogues for English Readers, Vol. 1". Book by William Whewell, "Remarks on the Phaedo", pp. 441-2, 1859.

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• Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

  Albert J. Nock

  Fall, Ideas, Quality

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• In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Two, Years

  "English Literature: A Survey for Students". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1958.

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• Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation.

  Roman Genn

  Art, War, Way

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• Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.

  Andrew Mellon

  Men, Thinking, Want

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• You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

  Ernest Dimnet

  God, Believe, Hard

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• Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Old Man, Interest

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• Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

  George Meredith

  Song, Singers, Lasting

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8369, Library of Alexandria

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• Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

  Albert J. Nock

  Spiritual, Heritage, Common

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• They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Long Ago, Blood

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.

  William Mountford

  Men, Shadow Of Death, Valleys

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.471

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• Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Dangerous, Opposition

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• He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

  John Keats

  Fear, Voice, Immortal Soul

  John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes Baron Houghton (1855). “The Poetical Works of John Keats”, p.97

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• No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  John Keats

  Dream, Luxury, Long

  John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.43

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• Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

  Rupert Brooke

  Heaven, Ponds, Streams

  'Heaven' (1915)

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• Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Giving, House

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