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Quotes About Immortality

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
~ Socrates
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
~ Thomas Carlyle
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
~ Tina Fey
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
~ Tom Stoppard
A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.
~ William Whewell
I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.
~ Cato the Elder
If a man knew how to live he would never die.
~ Robert Penn Warren
The day, man will find that he never really dies; that his Soul persists beyond death; he will have no more fear of death.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
~ Jean Giraudoux
They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.
~ John Muir
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
~ Edward Abbey
When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Men die but an idea does not.
~ Alan Jay Lerner
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.
~ Arthur Symons
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
~ Plato
A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.
~ Richard Basehart
...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
~ Heraclitus