| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal | | Jean Giraudoux | | | How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of Fate forgets himself into immortality | | Wendell Phillips | | | How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality | | Wendell Phillips | | | I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. | | Woody Allen | | | I understand [Willy Loman's] longing for immortality Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day, but he wishes he were writing in stone. | | Arthur Miller | | | | | | | Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. | | Ambrose Bierce | | | Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. | | Susan Ertz | | | My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. | | Jorge Luis Borges | | | Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope | | Robert Green Ingersoll | | | Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts. | | Albert Schweitzer | | | The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral. | | D.H. Lawrence | | | To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. | | Jorge Luis Borges | | | To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake | | Arthur Schopenhauer | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 16 of 16 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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