Quotes on Immortality

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from the accumulated past. If you can be unattached to the past every moment, then you are always fresh, young, just born. You pulsate with life and that pulsation gives you immortality. You are immortal, only unaware of the fact.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.

As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. It can keep a missionary actively winning lost men to the light of the gospel and thus transmute itself into heavenly values. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Spring-an experience in immortality.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.