IMMORTALITY
Quote: Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while. Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher
Quote: Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. Author: Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867, French Poet
Quote: Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent. [Jesus -- John 17:3] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his ''death,'' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view! Author: Martin Bormann 1900-1945, German Nazi Leader
Quote: If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having. Author: Edgar Sheffield Brightman
Quote: To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' --but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it --the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. Author: Herb Caen
Quote: For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely. Author: Bob Dylan 1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Author: Susan Ertz
Quote: He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. Author: Joseph Heller 1923-, American Author
Quote: Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. Author: Heraclitus BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher
Quote: The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: The first requisite for immortality is death. Author: Stanislaw J. Lec 1909-, Polish Writer
Quote: I have good hope that there is something after death. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving. Author: Frank Rooney
Quote: Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. Author: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian
Quote: But thy eternal summer shall not fade. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: 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. Author: Anne Smedley c. 1894-1950, American Author, Lecturer
Quote: We feel and know that we are eternal. Author: Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza 1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian
Quote: All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. Author: Francis Thompson 1859-1907, British Poet
Quote: The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self. Author: Katha Upanishad Ancient Hindu Scripture
Quote: To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist
Quote: Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog. Author: E(lwyn) B(rooks) White 1899-1985, American Author, Editor
Quote: Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. Author: Elie Wiesel 1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer