Quotation Explorer - 'Immortality'

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. - Dalai Lama XIV
Woody Allen once said that ‘I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.’ This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The night is Ours. Rejoicing in the ethereal realms where We are kings. Blessed souls of forgotten immortality. They fear Us in every grasp. - Luis Marques
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. - Pindar
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz
Greatness of thoughts define greatness. Greatness in actions define immortality. - Debasish Mridha
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. - Albert Einstein
Only youth has a taste of immortality. - D.H. Lawrence
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. 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. - Luther Burbank
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality - Emily Dickinson
We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next. - Max More
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality. - H.P. Lovecraft
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality. - Lionel Pigot Johnson
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched. - Unknown
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. - Robert Ingersoll
Մահ ոչ իմացեալ՝ մահ է, մահ իմացեալ՝ անմահութիւն է:Death, unanticipated, is death; death, anticipated, is immortality. - Saint Vardapet Eghishē
For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending. - Alecia Stone
Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality. - Iris Chang
My love for you attains immortality whenever it is touched by the thought of death - Munia Khan
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
A book is the only immortality - Rufus Choate
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen
IMMORTALITY, n. A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. G.J. - Ambrose Bierce
Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead. - H. L. Mencken
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering. - Bruce Lee
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. - James Thurber
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. - Peter Ustinov
Since in the world you imagines, a world without power and money, with no prohibitions, with no pain or death, each man would be God, and God therefore would not be possible. He would be a lie, because His attributes would be those of every man, woman and child: grace, immortality and supreme good. - Carlos Fuentes
Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties? - Patton Oswalt
And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita. - Vladimir Nabokov
My life closed twice before its' close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. - Emily Dickinson
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. - Clifton Fadiman
We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc. - Julian Huxley
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad. - Marcel Proust
Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families. In time, all of our wins and losses in the workplace will be forgotten. If our memories endure, it will be because of the people we have known and touched. - Harold S. Kushner
What you seek you shall never find. For when the Gods made man, They kept immortality to themselves.Fill your belly.Day and night make merry.Let Days be full of joy.Love the child who holds your hand.Let your wife delight in your embrace.For these alone are the concerns of man. - The Epic of Gilgamesh
Immortality -- a fate worse than death.
Immortality is the new twenty! - Erin Fall Haskell
I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another. - George Gordon Byron
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. - Robert Southey
The first condition of immortality is death. - Stanislaw J. Lec
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.
The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
‎I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality. - James Joyce
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. - Herb Caen
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dance is the ritual of immortality. - Shah Asad Rizvi
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today. - Edith Hamilton
That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality - Emily Dickinson
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality. - Wendell Phillips
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything. - Charles de Lint
Death is the beginning of immortality. - Maximilien Robespierre
... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz
Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality. - Grace Willows
Death is not the endDeath can never be the end.Death is the road.Life is the traveller.The Soul is the Guide...Our mind thinks of death.Our heart thinks of lifeOur soul thinks of Immortality - Sri Chinmoy
The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality - Udayveer Singh
Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality. - Darnell Lamont Walker
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