Quotes 21 till 40 of 47.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
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Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
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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.
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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 brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
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Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
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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.
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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