Immortality Quotes - page 10

I have known only one person in my life who claimed to have seen a ghost. It was a woman; and the interesting thing is that she disbelieved in the immortality of the soul before seeing the ghost and still disbelieves after having seen it. She thinks it was a hallucination. In other words, seeing is not believing. This is the first thing to get clear in talking about miracles. (C. S. Lewis)
The accepted theory that the serpent is evil cannot be substantiated. It has long been viewed as the emblem of immortality. It is the symbol of reincarnation, or metempsychosis, because it annually sheds its skin...It was also believed that snakes swallowed themselves, and this resulted in their being considered emblematic of the Supreme Creator, who periodically reabsorbed His universe back into Himself. View quote
Manly Palmer Hall
The Druids taught the people of Britain and Gaul concerning the immortality of the soul. They believed in transmigration and apparently in reincarnation. They borrowed in one life, promising to pay back in the next. They believed in a purgatorial type of hell where they would be purged of their sins, afterward passing on to the happiness of unity with the gods. The Druids taught that all men would be saved, but that some must return to earth many times to learn the lessons of human life and to overcome the inherent evil of their own natures. View quote
Manly Palmer Hall
Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death. View quote
Milan Kundera
He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom, Nor heed nor see, what things they be; But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality! View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can. View quote
Henry van Dyke
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. ... Without God and immortal life? All things are lawful then, they can do what they like? View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past. (Melanie Benjamin)
Now I behold as in a mirror, in an icon, in a riddle, life eternal, for that is naught other than that blessed regard wherewith Thou never ceasest most lovingly to behold me, yea, even the secret places of my soul. With Thee, to behold is to give life; 'tis unceasingly to impart sweetest love of Thee; 'tis to inflame me to love of Thee by love's imparting, and to feed me by inflaming, and by feeding to kindle my yearning, and by kindling to make me drink of gladness, and by drinking to infuse in me a fountain of life, and by infusing to make it increase and endure. 'Tis to cause me to share Thine immortality.... For it is the absolute maximum of every rational desire, than which a greater cannot be. View quote
Nicholas of Cusa
It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand. View quote
Roger Caras
That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said. View quote
Sara Shepard
It's a certain kind of immortality, because those Disney films do go on and on and on. View quote
Phyllis Diller
It's the subjugation of the entire world, it's communism, it's the immortality of mummies in mausoleums. It is the radiance of suns and rulers. It's a tower that takes ten thousand years to build. It's the might of armies, it's the burning of witches, it's the movement of people, continuous and unifying. It's the great copulation of nations, it's the swallowing of the smaller ones by the bigger ones, of the weaker ones by the stronger ones. View quote
Yurii Andrukhovych
Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first. View quote
Bill Cosby
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die. View quote
Bill Cosby
Tell your story. That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever. View quote
Brad Meltzer
He hadn't been religious. He'd believed that death was it. When you died you were dead, like a squished bug or drowned rat, and your immortality was in the minds of those you left behind. View quote
Glen Cook
What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time. (Joan D. Vinge)
Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something. View quote
Cass Sunstein
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. View quote
Alyson Noel
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. View quote
Alexander Chase