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Immortal Quotes - Page 5

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

Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.230, University of Toronto Press

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

Lewis Mumford (2016). “The Culture of Cities”, p.25, Open Road Media

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.236

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8369, Library of Alexandria

Love can make you immortal

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There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Sir Thomas Browne (1658). “Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Or, Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents, and Commonly Presumed Truths”

Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.143, Faber & Faber