#immortality

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. ↗

— George William Russell

#endure #human #immortality #infused #into

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. ↗

— Hu Shih

#basis #better #biological #death #decay

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#immortality #life #lived #make #moment

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#daine #dragon #kitten #immortality

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#fact #god #immortality #men #personal

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#faust #immortality #knowledge #life

His debtors always assumed he'd demand their firstborn. Like I'm fucking Rumpelstiltskin? What would Lothaire do with countless squalling babes? Raise them in a kennel? ↗

— Kresley Cole

#paranormal-romance #vampire #immortality

Nothing is forever. Except atoms. ↗

— Dannika Dark

#forever #immortal #immortality #introspective #mageri