Immortality Quotes - Page 9

• Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

  Mortimer Adler

  Self Love, Wish, Perpetuating

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• Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life Is Short, Men, Honorable Death

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• (Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

  Saul Bellow

  Two, Soul, Would Be

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, People, Choices

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• Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

  William Ernest Henley

  Men, Done, Pity

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Views and reviews”

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• The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Education, Purpose, Cherish

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• It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Vanity, Earth

  Heinrich Heine (1998). “Journey to Italy”, Marsilio Pub

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• To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

  Washington Irving

  Remembrance, Age, Titles

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.115, Penguin

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• What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Land, Sailing, Golden

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• If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter.

  Wang Yangming

  Heart, Eye, Years

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• Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.

  Wang Yangming

  Afterlife, Effort, Heaven

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• All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Pay, Tribes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.25

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• If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul's immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer.

  Albert Pike

  Religious, Believe, Doors

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• The only true immortality lies in one's children.

  Johannes Brahms

  Children, Lying

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• Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mean, Self, Realization

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• When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Boys, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3863, Simon and Schuster

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• Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

  Herman Melville

  Ubiquity

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.173

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• It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Practice, Self

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• [Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Death, Dark, Light

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• In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

  P. D. James

  Reality, Risk, Age

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.211, Vintage

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• The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

  James F. Byrnes

  Government, Earth, Approach

  James F. Byrnes (1947). “Spealing Frankly”

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• Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.

  Frances Brooke

  Writing, Crowns, Should

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• A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Believe, Goodness

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• Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.

  Mike Tyson

  Winning, Broken, Boxing

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