Quotes with immortal

  • Tiger, tiger burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry.
  • Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.
  • Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
  • A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
  • History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
  • The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
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  • Francis Picabia A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Francis Thompson 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.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Hesiod Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Charles Baudelaire 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.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Mark Twain History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anne Sexton I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • John Milton I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Heraclitus Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Lord George Byron 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.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Carl Sagan It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Edward Hoagland It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Smiley Blanton Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
    Smiley Blanton
    American psychoanalyst (1882 - 1966)
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  • Elie Wiesel Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Blair Underwood My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Robert Schumann People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.
    Robert Schumann
    German composer (1810 - 1856)
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