Immortality Quotes
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You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.
Vladimir Nabokov
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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.
Wang Yangming
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He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden? Who would want to give up an unblemished state of immortality for the insipid apple?
Achmat Dangor
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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
John Milton
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We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
Woodrow Wyatt
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Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
Plato
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Blest be the art that can immortalize.
William Cowper
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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
John Milton
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With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
Sara Teasdale
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
William Faulkner
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Emptiness is the `knowing of one that frees all.’
Emptiness is the supreme king of medicines.
Emptiness is the nectar of immortality.
Emptiness is spontaneous accomplishment beyond effort.
Emptiness is enlightenment without exertion.
Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
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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
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If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.
Nikola Tesla
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Life is the childhood of immortality.
Daniel A. Poling
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Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.
George William Russell
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'Tis immortality, 'tis that alone,
Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness,
The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill.
That only, and that amply this performs.
Edward Joseph Young
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Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.
Judith Malina
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I would like immortality.
Len Wein
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Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.
William Morley Punshon
