#immortal

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring. ↗

— Iain Pears

#freedom #immortality #liberation #meaning #philosophy

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#secrets #friendship

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

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #letter-writing #letters #the-mind #friendship

I want to merge a Phoenix with a Camel to create the world's first everlasting cigarette. It'll be a cigarette that rises from its own ashes, so you can keep smoking it indefinitely. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cigarette #everlasting #funny #humor #immortality

That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it. ↗

— Scott Speer

#maddy #funny

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told you of course I do- I've always had a strong sense of self. Your house is quiet now, you're sleeping upstairs and I'm alone with this blasted, idiotic book that purports to tally the sum of my life, and fact is, maybe I do. But maybe, ka-lyrra, your God doesn't believe in me. -- From The (Greatly Revised) Black Edition Of The O'Callaghan Book of the Sin Siriche Du ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#immortal-highlander #karen-marie-moning #sin-siriche-du #life

‎And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them? ↗

— Seth Grahame-Smith

#life #life

Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ↗

— John Milton

#immortality #life #literature #life

I would live forever if I could, but not like this. ↗

— Gary Young

#gary-young #immortality #live #live-forever #not-like-this