Quotes by Immortality The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality. Elie Wiesel jewish-traditionimmortalitylearning We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not. Elie Wiesel immortalitystillssecret No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes. Emile M. Cioran immortalityreputationwriting The only secret people keep is immortality. Emily Dickinson immortalitysecretpeople IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity. Emily Dickinson immortalimmortalityneeds It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. Eric Temple Bell graphic-designimmortalitymathematics 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. Ernest Dimnet immortalitygodbelieve What I have done cannot be taken from me. Eugene Delacroix immortalitydonetaken 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 immortalityalivegiving Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose the boon given to me was withheld from any of my fellow creatures. Fanny Kemble abhorrentimmortalitysoul Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality. Felix Dennis immortalityplanttree Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality. Frances Brooke immortalitycrownswriting Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. Francis I of France immortalitypersonsart If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal. Frank Herbert immortalitydenywant If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow? Franz Kafka immortalitytomorrowifs A healthy nature needs no God or immortality Friedrich Schiller immortalityhealthyneeds There is no virtue if there is no immortality. Fyodor Dostoevsky immortalityvirtueifs Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient. Frederick Lenz immortalitybuddhismmeditation Tis immortality to die aspiring. George Chapman immortalitydiesambition Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe. George Henry Lewes immortalitystreamssafe«1234567891011»
