Quotes
Quotes about Mortality
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.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.
A book is the only immortality.
How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone; But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong; Like angel's visits short and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long.
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb. Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee To make the charmed body Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses Of immortality.
To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.
