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• There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

  Anne Enright

  People, Different, Alive

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• public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

  Winifred Holtby

  Niece, Debt, May

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

  G. H. Hardy

  Silly, Mean, Math

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 8 (1940)

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• When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring consciousness. We see, feel and grow into the entire universe of Light-Delight.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Light, Wings, Meditation

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• With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Supernatural Beings, Soul, Mind

  1941 In the American Freeman, Jul.

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• Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

  Milan Kundera

  Butterfly, Wind, Ridiculous

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• I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
  Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
  Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

  William Butler Yeats

  Flames, Sea, White

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.130, Penguin

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• Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Self, Remembrance

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• Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  School, Reality, Sight

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Grace, Fruit

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Order, Soul, Doubt

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• I do not set my life at a pin's fee,
  And for my soul, what can it do to that,
  Being a thing immortal as itself?

  William Shakespeare

  Soul, Hamlet And Ophelia, Horatio

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 65

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• There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

  Susan Glaspell

  Thinking, World, Firsts

  Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.256, University of Michigan Press

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• I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it.

  Rod Serling

  Littles

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

  Novalis

  Philosophy, Bread, Economy

  As quoted in the essay "Novalis" by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.

  Lyman Abbott

  Children, Eye, Hair

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• A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

  John Marshall

  Age, Constitution, Framed

  John Marshall, Joseph Potter Cotton (2000). “The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall”, p.415, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Sleep, Hands, Support

  Last speech to the National Convention, www.bartleby.com. July 26, 1794.

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• The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

  Rajneesh

  Over You, Teach, Within You

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• I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Swear

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.59, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

  Wernher von Braun

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.

  George Henry Lewes

  Safe, Streams, Floats

  "On Actors and the Art of Acting". Book by George Henry Lewes, p. 60, 1875.

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• When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

  James Montgomery

  Men, Yield, Good Man

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1829). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: Complete in One Volume”

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• I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.

  George F. Kennan

  Seductive, Childhood, Promise

  GEORGE F. KENNAN (1967). “MEMOIRS 1925-1950”

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