Best 476 quotes in «immortality quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

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

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

... 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

For love is immortality.

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

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.

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

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

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

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.

If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

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

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

Immortality... Is that a super power?

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.