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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
Sigmund Freud
2.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Norman Cousins
3.
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
Herman Melville
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Walter Gropius
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Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead
H. L. Mencken
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Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
Francis I of France
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I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.
Mark Jason Dominus
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Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
Brandon Lee
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
James Dean
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
Sydney J. Harris
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
Sappho
16.
There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.
George S. Patton
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Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.
Bruce R. McConkie
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The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
Plato
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This life is but the childhood of our immortality.
Denis Johnson
20.
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
Charles Spurgeon
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If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
Thomas Beecham
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The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.
Orestes Brownson
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It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
Otto Weininger
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
Edgar Lee Masters
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I believe in the immortality of all creatures.
Egon Schiele
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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
Franz Kafka
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Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.
Multatuli
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Mel Brooks
34.
I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.
Ray Charles
35.
I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.
Lu Tong
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Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality.
Colin Jordan
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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King
40.
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
Karl Kraus
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One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
Homer
42.
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
Novalis
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Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov
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Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.
Carl Sandburg
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I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
Judy Chicago
47.
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
Pindar
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.
Socrates
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I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.
George MacDonald