True Immortality Quotes

#1. People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of
life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they
continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It
is as though they were traveling abroad.

Marcel Proust

#2. To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality - not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting.

Justin Cronin

#3. The only true immortality lies in one's children.
[Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger]

Johannes Brahms

#4. 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

#5. The worst thing ever for me is go see a movie, and the next day I go, 'What did I do last night? I have no memory of this $300 million movie I watched because I felt nothing.'

Asif Kapadia

#6. I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

Ray Davies

#7. Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

Philip James Bailey

#8. 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

#9. The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.

Joel Fuhrman

#10. 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

#11. Love

O Love! thou makest all things even
In earth or heaven;
Finding thy way through prison-bars
Up to the stars;
Or, true to the Almighty plan,
That out of dust created man,
Thou lookest in a grave,--to see
Thine immortality!

Sarah Flower Adams

#12. Stiff shoulders humped over the writing-table, and the ache of a heart slow to move. A tortoise heart.

J.M. Coetzee

#13. Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

Alfred Billings Street

#14. Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

Colin Powell

#15. Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Pete Wentz

#16. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

James Dean

#17. With her wild red hair draped around her pallid visage, she could easily be mistaken for a nymph from a Pre-Raphaelite painting. But then again, those nymphs were rarely hung-over or quite such a freckled, busty little thing.

Renate Linnenkoper

#18. I've kind of achieved everything I thought that I never would, so I haven't really got a bucket list. But I really wanna go to loads of different places.

Gabrielle Aplin

#19. Why can't I remember that not once have I ever seen a coin, whether grimy copper or bright gold, that had but one side.

Andrew Levkoff

#20. Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#21. Books are the true metempsychosis,
they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

Henry Ward Beecher

#22. Tell your story.
That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever.

Brad Meltzer

#23. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life. The gospel of Jesus Christ is again on the earth. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is true and living.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#24. Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Louis Zukofsky

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

Anna Brownell Jameson

#27. Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

Laozi

#28. One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies

Kanza Javed

#29. We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

Charles De Lint

#30. An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.

John Of Damascus

#31. The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.

Robin Sloan

#32. Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing.

Emma Donoghue

#33. May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

Heath Ledger

#34. Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

Christoph Niemann

#35. If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.
He will have nothing to live for.

James Edwin Gunn