Immortality Quotes
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You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
Ernest Dimnet
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Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.
Winifred Holtby
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That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.
Sara Shepard
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
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I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
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With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.
Hannah Arendt
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A book is the only immortality.
Rufus Choate
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There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.
Michelle Forbes
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error. They think they'll find another way. I'm not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire.
Adam Gollner
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If you make the effort to work through the ideas I’ll be setting out in this book, then even if you do not end up agreeing with me that the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and the natural law conception of morality are rationally unavoidable, you will understand how reasonable people could be convinced of this.
Edward Feser
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There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.
Humphry Davy
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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Hu Shih
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Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for immortality.
Hannu Rajaniemi
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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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I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Helen Keller
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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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To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.
Albert Camus
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Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
Miguel de Unamuno
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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
