Immortality quotes
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"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."
"The only secret people keep is immortality."
"But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality."
"Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world."
"I believe in God and immortality."
"I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!"
"If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it."
"Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality."
"Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge."
"Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power."
"And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita."
"I look through the grave into heaven."
"I am conscious of eternal life."
"The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards."
"The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed."
"We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do."
"Creativity is a yearning for immortality"
"It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality."
"Immortality is the best recollection one leaves."
"Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever."
