Immortality Quotes
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco
Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.201
Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.76, Open Road Media
Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
Karen Joy Fowler (2004). “Sarah Canary”, Plume
Sydney J. Harris (1957). “Majority of one”
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
Sappho (1988). “Poems & Fragments”, Lyle Stuart
There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.
Letter to his mother from Chamlieu, France, November 20, 1917.
Plato, General Press (2016). “The Republic”, p.506, GENERAL PRESS
Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.317, Pan Macmillan
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.140
Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.173
Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”
Sex and Character Pt II, Ch. 5
The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.
Orestes Augustus Brownson (1840). “Charles Elwood: Or, the Infidel Converted”, p.90