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Immortality Quotes - Page 3

Blest be the art that can immortalize.

Blest be the art that can immortalize.

William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: The task. Tirocinium. Miscellaneous poems. Adam: a sacred drama, tr. from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini”, p.283

You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Ada or Ardor”, p.492, Penguin UK

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

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

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”

A book is the only immortality.

"Part of a Man's Life". Book by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1905.