Immortality Quotes (page 13)

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• great
• death
• saying

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. Don DeLillo

• lesson
• feeling
• school

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves. And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away. My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed. A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis... Emily Dickinson

• school
• stupid
• evening

... even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart. Meg Cabot

• pointless things
• hoard
• pointlessness

We immortals aren't misers - we don't hoard! Such things are pointless. Margaret Atwood

• moments
• momentous
• immortal

Everything mortal has moments immortal Amy Lowell

• life
• fruit
• passion

Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate. Thomas Moore

• true
• him
• god

...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he. Plato

• thinking
• die
• wrongly

How wrong we were to think that immortality meant never dying. Gerard Way

• struggle
• destiny
• simple

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in. The one lovely world he knew, lived in, that gave him all he had, was, according to preacher and prelate, the one to be least in his thoughts. He was recommended, ordered, from the day of his birth to bid goodbye to it. Oh, we have had enough of the abuse of this fair earth! It is no sad truth that... Sean O'Casey

• fear
• fears
• mortals

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• death
• heart
• brainly

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality. Dean Koontz

• time
• die
• paying

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive. Friedrich Nietzsche

• spiritual
• am
• shredding

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality. H. P. Lovecraft

• shine
• house
• hope

From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality. Sara Teasdale

• evening
• week
• play

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day. Albert Camus