Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.
The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.
It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.
Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
The only greatness for man is immortality.
We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.
Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.
. . . even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions. Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.
God’s purpose is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. ”2 That is fundamental to all we do. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in things that we find fascinating or become so consumed by mundane responsibilities that we lose sight of God’s objectives. As you consistently focus your life on the most basic principles, you will gain an understanding of what you are to do, and you will produce more fruit for the Lord and more happiness for yourself.
