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  • I believe in God and immortality.

  • 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 I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

    Art   Memories   Believe  
  • An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

    Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576
  • Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

  • You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

    Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

    Errors   Forever   Desire  
    1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).
  • If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

    Atheist   Mean   Men  
    "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.
  • No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.

    Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.129
  • In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of enthusiasts, who sing hallelujahs above the clouds; and the vanity of authors, who presume the immortality of their name and writings.

    Hope   Children   Writing  
    Edward Gibbon (1827). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, 1”, p.258
  • The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

  • Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.

    Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the only cause that you can't die for.

  • Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

    John Ruskin (1858). “The Stones of Venice”, p.41
  • Only youth has a taste of immortality.

    D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1881, Simon and Schuster
  • Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord’s desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

    Men   Baptism   Desire  
  • Men are immortal till their work is done.

    Men   Done   Immortality  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, letter describing the death of Bishop Mackenzie in Africa (March 1862), (pp. 388-390), 1922.
  • Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

  • That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.

  • I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

    Art   Angel   Thinking  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.171, Hamilton Books
  • Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality.

    Death   Flower   Blessed  
  • Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality.

    Past   Men   Immortality  
  • The only secret people keep is immortality.

    Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1174, Harvard University Press
  • I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

    Believe   Forever   Wish  
    Letter to Fanny Brawne, June 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 293
  • Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

    Discours sur le Style (1753)
  • Immortality is overrated, living for an eternity would get really old.

  • Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.

    Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

    Believe   Men   Forever  
    "Fire from Heaven". Book by Mary Renault, 1969.
  • We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

    Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”
  • Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

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