Immortality

(147 votes)   Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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(111 votes)   To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist

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(105 votes)   I have good hope that there is something after death.

Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(85 votes)   Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Charles Baudelaire
1821-1867, French Poet

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(81 votes)   But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(81 votes)   Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(80 votes)   Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
1899-1985, American Author, Editor

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(77 votes)   It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a ''grand peut-''tre'' --but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it --the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(76 votes)   Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent. [Jesus -- John 17:3]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(74 votes)   For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Bob Dylan
1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter

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(68 votes)   If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Edgar Sheffield Brightman

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(61 votes)   The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(61 votes)   The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self.

Katha Upanishad
Ancient Hindu Scripture

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(60 votes)   Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Heraclitus
BC 535-475, Greek Philosopher

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(59 votes)   Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.

Frank Rooney

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