Immortality Quotes

• 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

• 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

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

  

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

• Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another. Humans have always believed in the possibility of another life, of a second act. We've also always hoped that there might be a way to avoid dying. The term "cultural-universal" is a complicated one, but I've heard it come up on numerous occasions while researching immortality.

  

  Adam Gollner
  • Culture
  • Dying
  • Immortality

• We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.

  

  Woodrow Wyatt
  • Children
  • inspirational
  • Immortality

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

  

  Barry Hughart
  • Wonder
  • Immortality

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

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Friend
  • Immortality
  • Letter

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

  

  Sappho
  • Death
  • Evil
  • Immortality

• Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Earth

• 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

• Literature is the immortality of speech.

  

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel
  • Literature
  • Speech
  • Immortality

• 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

• Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Heart
  • Personality
  • Man Is

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Norman Cousins
  • Achievement
  • Because
  • Approach

• In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Honest

• The first condition of immortality is death.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Death
  • Conditions
  • Immortality

• 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
  • Effort
  • Immortality
  • Emptiness

• The first requisite for immortality is death.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Death
  • Immortality

• 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

• Life is the childhood of our immortality.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Childhood
  • Life is
  • 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

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