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Quotes about Immortality


In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?

Hazrat Ali

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Edgar Sheffield Brightman

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!

Woody Allen

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

John Milton

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

Mrs. Anna Jameson

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

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

James F. Byrnes

It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.

Joseph Addison

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Joseph Addison

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Sir Thomas Browne

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

William Ellery Channing

'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

George Chapman

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

William de Morgan

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

William de Morgan

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

John Keats

I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality--I wish to live with you forever.

John Keats

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Edgar Sheffield Brightman

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

Emily Dickinson

All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Edgar Sheffield Brightman

Cheese—milk's leap forward to immortality.

Clifton Fadiman

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.

Frank Rooney

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.

Anne Smedley

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