Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?
The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.
It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.
Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.
We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.
I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.
We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.
We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion. " Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream. " Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time. " That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering
How much longer will I live? (Urian) You’re immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn’t make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn’t. (Acheron)