"Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods."
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"Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!"
"No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality."
"Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave."
"Spring-an experience in immortality."
"And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives."
"A healthy nature needs no God or immortality"
"Man is immortal till his work is done."
"Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all."
"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."
"However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no."
"The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself."
"But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality."
"Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality."
"The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution."
"We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes."
"But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality."
"Only youth has a taste of immortality."
"Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea."
"We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not."