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• How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Agency, Forever

  Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Henry Mackenzie, Horace Walpole (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.373

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• Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Poet, Truest

  "Caxtoniana". Essay XXVII, 1863.

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• The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Enemy

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• We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Aging, Conformity

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• We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

  Max More

  Dream, Two, Alchemist

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• This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Soul, Shadow

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 168), 2013.

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• There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Virtue, Ifs

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

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• The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

  Laozi

  Ambition, Doors, Ties

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Path, Talent, Martyrdom

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• Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

  Socrates

  Men, Creation

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• Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Love Life, Thinking, Existential

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “A very easy death”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, Light, Reason

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• A child is a reinvigorating experience. It almost does feel like immortality, but not in the way people think. It reminds us there are universal truths that are most simply seen through the mind of a young person.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Kelsey Grammer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.

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• Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Flower, Men, Dust

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• I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Book, Library, Knows

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• Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Success, God

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• We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial infinity and temporal immortality it provides may well be just the remedy for these age-old problems. Access to the boundless resources of the universe may once and for all puncture the pressure of population and politics of scarcity which have generated war, oppression, and plagued our species from the start.

  Paul Levinson

  War, Space, Age

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• Immortality... Is that a super power?

  Mark Wahlberg

  Power, Super Power

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• I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

  Lord Byron

  Believe, Religion, Miserable

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• I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

  Leo Tolstoy

  God, Believe, Soul

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries: 1847-1894”, Scribner

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• Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

  Shane Smith

  Fabric Of Life, Issues, Want

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• It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Important

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• Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.

  Paul Carus

  Truth Is, Immortal, Attainment

  Paul Carus (1902). “Nirvāna, a Story of Buddhist Psychology”, p.54, Asian Educational Services

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• For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

  Marilyn Manson

  Keys, Transformation, Longevity

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• If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Son, Watches

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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