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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient.
Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.
If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.
The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead.
Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.
We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.
Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.
With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.
While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!
Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.
Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.
Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!
The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to us.'
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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.
Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.
There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.
It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.