Best 476 quotes in «immortality quotes» category

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Wouldn’t the joys of life lose all colour, if life was eternal?

Writing. Is it a way to be remembered, or a need to become immortal?

You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

You know, there's a reason we can remember," [Catarina] said more softly. "That's much easier when your life has an expiration date." "It may be more important for us.

You can’t find God through astronomy; you can’t find immortality through biology. The Kingdom of Heaven can’t be attained through philosophy. There is only one way that leads to these things and that way is through the spirit.

You don't even have a cross," he said. His beloved was silent. "You don't even have any candles, no face of Christ, no tears. What can I say?" Then she began to murmur and he was astonished. "I'm sorry. I will believe in the eternity of souls, I am bereaved. I will see those places where death talks solemnly to the years, where the breakers roll over their sins and their regrets, where the valley of Heaven lies before the crag of immortality, and I will believe my mother has gained peace. I have lost her. Has anyone felt such terrible grief, known that for all earthly time the eyes shall never see, the heart never beat except with her shadow? What an unhappy loss, the candles are gutted, and the face wanes for this immortality. I have lost my mother." This was her only glimpse of Heaven, and she wept so much that he was afraid. Finally she held his hand. The two brothers fired the cannon at the burial.

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that there is something seriously wrong with this system. Capitalism is a system that puts rich people on a pedestal, legalizes greed, and enables the rich to exploit the poor. It’s morally wrong. What kind of a God would support something so immoral? Would Jesus support the exploitation of the poor by the rich? No, of course not. If you think of yourself as a follower of Christ’s teachings, if you consider yourself a good person, you are morally obligated to be against greed. It’s your duty as a good person to be against exploitation. It’s your moral duty to be against predatory capitalism.

You know, it’s really very peculiar. To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn’t know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn’t even know how to be dead.

And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.

You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore.

Your real name is a mortal name. Now you need one that is immortal, the one that takes the high stage and plays above the rest. You can't be immortal and mortal at the same time.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

Your soul is different than your body. the soul is the real identity. you keep on believing in your name as your identity but the eternal truth is that your soul is your real identity. Just like you discard your clothes to get new one; you need to leave your one incarnation to get another. Don't get limited by your only birth. Your soul is ageless and immortal.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.

Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.

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.

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.

Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality.

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

For love is immortality.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

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

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.