Immortality Quotes - Page 32

• We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.

  Simone Weil

  Desire, May, Should

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.15, Psychology Press

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• Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Believe, Creativity

  "The Female Woman". Book by Arianna Huffington, 1973.

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• We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

  James A. Garfield

  Past, Giving, Forever

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• Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Writing, Wind, Glory

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

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• Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

  J. G. Holland

  Twins, Twin Sister, Eternity

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• In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Religious, Drama, Character

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• We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

  Harriet Martineau

  Believe, Trying, Helping

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• Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Soul, Lasts

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1839). “The Orations”, p.261

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• How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Loyalty, Thinking, Stronger

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• Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

  William Wordsworth

  Ideas, Proof, Born

  William Wordsworth, “Inside Of King's College Chapel, Cambridge”

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• If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.

  Erich Fromm

  Christian, Mean, Reflection

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Nice, Light

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• Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

  E. M. Delafield

  Believe, Fate, Reincarnation

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

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• To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

  Anton Chekhov

  Broken, Matter, Violin

  "Ward No. 6". Short stories by Anton Chekhov, 1892.

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• A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.

  David Niven

  Running, Life And Love, Long

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• We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Speak, Eternity

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.246

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• Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Long, Healthy

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• I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!

  Adam Mickiewicz

  Stars, Hands, Sky

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• Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of passage. It is a gateway to a new manner of living, and a new road on which to walk that leads to immortality and eternal life. It was never intended as a dead end. It was intended to open a glorious and wonderful way of life to all who would walk in obedience to the commandments of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Baptism, Church

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• I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Atheist, Believe, Soul

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• But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

  J. K. Rowling

  Embrace, Chasing, Lord Voldemort

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• Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality—

  Alyson Noel

  Healing, Soul, Energy

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• In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Support, Religion

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• "God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them?
  I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.692, Modern Library

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• The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Dog, Past, Lions

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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