Immortality Quotes - page 3

All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards-long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards. (Octavia Butler)
Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia. View quote
N. K. Jemisin
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment. View quote
Woody Allen
Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future]. View quote
Alan Lightman
The French people recognize the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality. View quote
E. E. Cummings
A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it. View quote
John Marshall
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. View quote
George Chapman
Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only immortality that you and I may share, my Lolita. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss Poems that take a thousand years to die But ape the immortality of this Red label on a little butterfly. (Vladimir Nabokov)
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. View quote
John Muir
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. View quote
Helen Keller
Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality. View quote
Stephen King
Each life makes its own imitation of immortality. View quote
Stephen King
Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence? View quote
Carl Jung
It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence. View quote
Edward Everett
When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!" View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. (Emily Dickinson)
My life closed twice before its' close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. View quote
Emily Dickinson
That Such have died enable Us The tranquiller to die -- That Such have lived, Certificate for Immortality. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. View quote
William Wordsworth
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. View quote
Edgar Lee Masters