Top 25 Mortality Quotes of 77 - Page 2

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

Childhood, Life Is, Immortality

Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.317, Pan Macmillan

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Death, Waiting Rooms, Immortality

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.140

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

Herman Melville

Ubiquity, Immortality

Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.173

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

George Herbert

Dust, Flesh, Mortality

George Herbert (1856). “The poetical works of George Herbert. Illustrated”, p.80

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

Franz Kafka

Tomorrow, Immortality, Ifs

Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Otto Weininger

Desire, Causes, Immortality

Sex and Character Pt II, Ch. 5

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

Orestes Brownson

Soul, Immortality

Orestes Augustus Brownson (1840). “Charles Elwood: Or, the Infidel Converted”, p.90

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Firsts, Immortality

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Frank Herbert

Demise, Mortality, Ends

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Egon Schiele

Art, Believe, Immortality

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Edgar Lee Masters

Achievement, Agnostic, Immortality

Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.210, Courier Corporation

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Samuel Butler

Death, May, Immortality

Samuel Butler (1926). “The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler”

Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end.

Multatuli

Rope, Eternity, Immortality

Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press

Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.

Craig Johnson

Mortality

Craig Johnson (2007). “Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Longmire Mystery”, p.318, Penguin

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Virtue, Immortality, Ifs

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Bodhidharma

Mean, Awareness, Mortality

Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

Amartya Sen

Children, Literacy, Mortality

Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.195, Anchor

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Mel Brooks

Immortality, Good Work, Products

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Evil, Mortality

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

George MacDonald

Gaps, Immortality, Middle

George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.4585, e-artnow