Best 476 quotes in «immortality quotes» category

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

The first condition of immortality is death.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

The only secret people keep is immortality.

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

We want to live forever, and we're getting there.

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures.

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.

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.

Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

A beautiful idea can give you immortality—not success or money.

A body can't live without a heart. And I can't live without you.

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.

A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if the paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his presence. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

A human being will rarely admit this to you, but they tend to be terrified of living forever. They were born and raised with the understanding that their lives would end. They've achieved everything they wanted to achieve, all the ills that plagued them. And now boredom is their only enemy. And they get up in the morning and fight it every day of their eternal lives. Recreation and play sustain them. Football sustains them. And if you find yourself in a football game that's such a gargantuan task, that seems undefeatable, that will claim eons of your time and your passion? I think that makes you one of the lucky ones.

All of human civilization... is basically a result of immortality projects: the cities and governments and structures and authorities in places today were all immortality projects of men and women who came before us. They are the remnants of conceptual selves that ceased to die... all the meaning in our life is shaped by this innate desire to never truly die. Religion, politics, sports, art, and technological innovation are the result of people's immortality projects. ...wars and revolutions and mass murder occur when one group of people's immortality project rub up against another group's.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

All of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are aware of it or not.

All love is immortal.

All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.

All right. Then I'll begin... It's the tale of a man who drank the demon's liquor and gained immortality. That miserable man's lonely, lonely yarn. The stage is Prohibition-era New York. It's the story of the peculiar destiny surrounding the death sudden appearance of the liquor of immortality and of the spiral of people who found themselves drawn into it...

All souls can earn IMMORTALITY. The Creators have IMMORTALITY. The Creators are the' ONLY' ONES' To award IMMORTALITY... FROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits

And how do we achieve immortality?" "Immortality ! Produce a thought, and spread it in the universe. Just keep doing it, produce and spread.

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.

Ambition's ambition is immortality. To create an eternal legacy.

And never forget," Michael said, "time travelers never die. No matter what you saw up ahead, about me, I'll always be here.

A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality.

And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove, Nor war, nor fire, nor flood, Nor venomous time that eats our lives away. Then let that morning come, as come it will, When this disguise I carry shall be no more, And all the treacherous years of life undone, And yet my name shall rise to heavenly music, The deathless music of the circling stars. As long as Rome is the Eternal City These lines shall echo from the lips of men, As long as poetry speaks truth on earth, That immortality is mine to wear.