Quotes with immortality

  • Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
  • If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

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  • Mark Twain A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Emily Dickinson A letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone, without corporal friend.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • A. A. Milne I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Rufus Choate A book is the only immortality.
    Rufus Choate
    American lawyer, orator, and Congressman (1799 - 1859)
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  • Pindar A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Cliff Fadiman Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Oscar Wilde Culture depends on cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.
    Vera, or the Nihilists (1883)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean Paul Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Stephen King Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Virgil Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Emily Dickinson I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Albert Einstein I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Woody Allen I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work ... I want to achieve it through not dying.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Norman Cousins If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
    Anatomy of an Illness (1979)
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
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