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Immortality Quotes

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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
Sigmund Freud

Authors on Immortality Quotes: Frederick Lenz Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Theodore Parker J. K. Rowling Henry Ward Beecher Mehmet Murat Ildan Stanislaw Jerzy Lec George Eliot Socrates George Santayana Vladimir Nabokov Plato Milan Kundera Elie Wiesel Herman Melville John Milton Emily Dickinson Norman Cousins Dean Koontz Tom Stoppard James F. Byrnes May Sarton Rachel Maddow Karl Kraus Jewel E. M. Delafield Andre Maurois Rollo May Stephen King Gerard Houllier Daniel A. Poling George Chapman
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

4.
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

5.
The only true immortality lies in one's children.
Johannes Brahms

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Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead
H. L. Mencken

7.
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch Spinoza

8.
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

10.
I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.
Mark Jason Dominus

11.
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
Brandon Lee

12.
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

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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

18.
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
Plato

19.
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

21.
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
Thomas Beecham

22.
Immortality is but ubiquity in time.
Herman Melville

23.
The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.
Orestes Brownson

24.
I believe in the immortality of all creatures.
Egon Schiele

25.
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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The first requisite for immortality is death.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

28.
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
Franz Kafka

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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

30.
Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.
Multatuli

31.
There is no virtue if there is no immortality.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Immortality is a by-product of good work.
Mel Brooks

33.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King

34.
Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.
Paramahansa Yogananda

35.
I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.
Ray Charles

36.
I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.
Lu Tong

37.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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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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A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
Pindar

40.
The first condition of immortality is death.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

41.
Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.
Karl Kraus

42.
One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
Homer

43.
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
Novalis

44.
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

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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
Arthur Schopenhauer

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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

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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