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?
If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
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.
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.
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
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.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
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.]
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
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.
If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
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.
Cheeseâmilk's leap forward to immortality.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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.