Top 100 Quotes About Immortality
#1. I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.
Luther Burbank
#2. Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.
Multatuli
#3. 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
#5. Love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only
and best
answer to death is loving. Loving.
Dean Koontz
#6. 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
#7. We seek immortality in mortal things. Even the strongest of our desires is bound to die after sometime. What should remain in the end is only the willpower.
Sarita Singh
#8. I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality
> immortal mistakes.
Esther Dyson
#9. They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things like vampires and past lives and immortality just didn't exist in the real world. And Schuyler was a card-carrying member of the real world. She didn't want to check into CrazyTown any time soon.
Melissa De La Cruz
#10. I believe in the immortality of all creatures.
Egon Schiele
#11. He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.
William Watson
#12. 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
#13. Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King
#14. By exercising Spiritual Choices towards Light through the chain of lives you will gain an ultimate goal of a human being - Redemption from reincarnation chain and Spiritual Immortality...
Jacklyn A. Lo
#15. Death is the beginning of Immortality. - MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE
Kami Garcia
#16. Our immortality comes through our children and their children. Through our roots and branches. The family is immortality. And Hitler has destroyed not just branches and roots, but entire family trees, forests. All of them, gone.
Amy Harmon
#17. Immortality can be soon achieved by using technology.
The real issue is, are humans compatible with eternity?
Toba Beta
#18. Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
Milan Kundera
#19. I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#20. 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
#21. The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
Jon Landau
#22. The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#23. Victory is the thought transformation resulting from comprehending that physical immortality ... perpetual longevity, sans illness and aging ... eternal, healthy, youthful life in your living flesh ... is not a fantasy, but a practical and attainable possibility.
Linda Goodman
#24. That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Swami Vivekananda
#25. I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!
Lord Byron
#26. 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.
Ernest Hemingway,
#27. For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.
Marilyn Manson
#28. In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.
Eula Biss
#30. As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our dead heroes will have won immortality. Civilisation will have gained new vitality. Humanity will have entered upon a richer heritage.
Horatio Bottomley
#31. It was a shame I couldn't go public with my ability. Girls found immortality hot, right? Slap on a pair of fangs and add some glitter and I could probably hook up with my choice of rabid Twilight fangirls.
Jus Accardo
#32. There is a kind of immortality in every garden.
Gladys Taber
#33. Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.
Henry Ward Beecher
#34. The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life ... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Joseph Addison
#35. The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. All souls can earn IMMORTALITY.
The Creators have IMMORTALITY.
The Creators are the' ONLY' ONES'
To award IMMORTALITY ...
FROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits
Tiffany Thompson
#37. What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
John Milton
#38. If I cannot have a religion that will lead me to God, and place me en rapport with him, and unfold to my mind the principles of immortality and eternal life, I want nothing to do with it.
John Taylor
#39. Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is
Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
Walt Whitman
#40. What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?
Clyde DeSouza
#41. Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.
Frederick William Robertson
#42. Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
Jewel
#44. Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.
Deepak Chopra
#45. So the sacrifice of Christ would bring life and immortality.
Ellen G. White
#46. A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
Pindar
#48. None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
Sigmund Freud
#49. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
Edgar S. Brightman
#50. How disorienting and isolating immortality must be, and how strong he must be to weather it.
Michael Talbot
#51. Immortality affords you the opportunity to witness history in the making. Humanity's triumphs and its cruelties, both. It is both a high price to pay and a priceless gift, to carry the weight of that knowledge.
Chloe Neill
#52. When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.
Charles Finch
#53. We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.
Jessica Khoury
#54. Those who know, not only that the Everlasting lives in them, but that what they, and all things, really are is the Everlasting, dwell in the groves of the wish-fulfilling trees, drink the brew of immortality, and listen everywhere to the unheard music of eternal concord. These are the immortals.
Joseph Campbell
#55. I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality
Herman Melville
#57. Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?
Patton Oswalt
#58. Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
George Bernard Shaw
#59. I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce
#60. If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#61. [T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.
Temple Grandin
#62. Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.
James Hollis
#63. If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.
Lincoln Steffens
#65. What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. Because you are young and free and one with the jungle. You are mortal, but instead of clinging to the hope of immortality, you embrace each day, one at a time, and never worry about tomorrow.
Jessica Khoury
#67. People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
Don DeLillo
#69. The greatest sin you could commit is immortality, because it means that you'll eventually commit all else.
Abdullah Ali
#70. Earth may embitter, not remove,
The love divinely given;
And e'en that mortal grief shall prove
The immortality of love,
And lead us nearer heaven.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#71. Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.
John Muir
#72. The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.
Frederick Lenz
#73. To be hated! to love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, one's fame, one's salvation, one's immortality and eternity,
Victor Hugo
#74. If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.
Frank Herbert
#75. Some people say you achieve immortality through your children," said the minstrel.
"Yeah?" said Cohen. "Name one of your great-granddads, then.
Terry Pratchett
#76. The person who doesn't read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.
Umberto Eco
#77. But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
Plato
#78. Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
Saint Augustine
#79. I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
John Keats
#80. The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
Edmund Burke
#81. 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
#82. Ah yes, jobs. Once upon a time, souls were traded for immortality or riches. Now we are bought and sold with the promise of jobs. The human spirit is devalued currency. How the devil must be laughing.
Jamie Delano
#83. To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.
Jon Landau
#84. How can a person who has awakened to the truth about his body ever die? Such a one attains to immortality.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead.
H.L. Mencken
#87. 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
#88. It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.
Henry Rollins
#89. Immortality, power, dominance, all are illusions. Don't you see? We are simply pawns in a game beyond our understanding.' Pug
Raymond E. Feist
#90. This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk."
"Maybe both of us have got a piece of him," said Lee.
Maybe that's what immortality is.
John Steinbeck
#91. Yahweh - a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading us to it. Such a god in the Orient would be regarded as a deluding idol.
Joseph Campbell
#93. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere
Gordon B. Hinckley
#94. Being aware that he had but a short time to live and having neither Martian nor Kansan faith in immortality, he purposed to live each golden moment as eternity - without
Robert A. Heinlein
#95. It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.
Gerard Way
#96. We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists
Nikos Kazantzakis
#97. See how the masses of men worry themselves into nameless graves, while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#98. If he was truly as old as she suspected, she was likely little more than a speck of dust to him, a fizzle of life in the long-burning fire of his immortality.
Sarah J. Maas
#99. Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
Edward Young
#100. Love all your different sides, only then will immortality come to you.
Frederick Lenz
