Immortality Quotes

• Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Nature
  • Poets
  • Diviner

• No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies.

  

  Akiane Kramarik
  • Soul
  • Happens
  • Immortality

• 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
  • Desire
  • Dangerous
  • Immortality

• 'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

  

  Barry Hughart
  • Wonder
  • Immortality

• The first condition of immortality is death.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Death
  • Conditions
  • Immortality

• Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.

  

  Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Price
  • Immortality

• People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

  

  Studs Terkel
  • People
  • Form
  • Hungry

• 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
  • Individual
  • Achievement
  • Historical

• When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

  

  Charles Finch
  • Students
  • Immortal
  • Mortality

• Literature is the immortality of speech.

  

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Literature
  • Speech
  • Immortality

• 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
  • Death
  • Man
  • Immortality

• 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
  • Soul
  • Criticism
  • Atheism

• 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
  • Dark
  • Kissing
  • Butterfly

• Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

  

  Sappho
  • Death
  • Evil
  • Immortality

• A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. After all, money can’t buy you immortality.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Money
  • Mission
  • Immortality

• You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Hurt
  • Dresses
  • Breasts

• A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Friend
  • Immortality
  • Letter

• The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.

  

  Kate Wilhelm
  • Science
  • Mankind
  • Philosophical

• Immortality is a terrible curse.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Immortality
  • Curse

• Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Heart
  • Humanity
  • Animation

• The first requisite for immortality is death.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Death
  • Immortality

• It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • Evidence
  • Seems
  • Atheism

• If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Achievement
  • Because
  • Approach

• The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Nature
  • Conscious
  • Immortality

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