#immortality

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#despair #immortality #wisdom #death

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

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

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies? ↗

— Plato

#philosophy-of-life #soul #life

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #life #death

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness! ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#future #immortality #life #procreation #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

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

— Gary Young

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

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive. ↗

— Audrey Auden

#immortality #mortality #reincarnation #life

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#new-life #regeneration #life