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Immortality Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “A dead man has no age.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Death, Age, Existence, Time, Immortality, Philosophy

2. “A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.”

John Milton

Death, Sleep, Immortality, Transition, Afterlife

3. “A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.”

William Butler Yeats

Transcendence, Superhuman, Death, Life, Transformation, Immortality

4. “A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.”

E.M. Forster

Timeless Storytelling, Legacy Creation, Narrative Depth, Life Exploration, Immortality, Creativity

5. “All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”

Socrates

Spirituality, Eternal Life, Righteousness, Divine Soul, Immortality, Inner Purity

6. “And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita Immortality, Shared Immortality, Eternal Bond, Immortality, Bond, Eternal

7. “Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read him again, and he will talk to me, not being dead, or gone. Is that life after death – mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring? Maybe. I do not know.”

Sylvia Plath

Legacy, Introspection, Literary Connection, Immortality, Memory, Existential Thought

8. “As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!”

William Wordsworth

Nature’s Eye, Life And Death, Immortality, Reflection, Nature, Truth

9. “Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.”

Buddha

Mindful Living, Vigilant Actions, Eternal Life, Attention, Care, Immortality

10. “Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”

Emily Dickinson

Death, Immortality, Fate, Journey, Life, Time

11. “Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.”

Simone Weil

Immortality, Soul, Belief, Death’s Purpose, Spiritual Misconception, Human Limits

12. “Belshazzar had a letter, – He never had but one; Belshazzar’s correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation’s wall.”

Emily Dickinson

Letter, Belshazzar, Conscience, Revelation, History, Immortality

13. “But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”

E.M. Forster

Immortality, Misunderstanding, Death, Memory, Human Perception, Emotional Legacy

14. “Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”

Sylvia Plath

Immortality, Existence, Insignificance, Fleeting, Mortality, Solitude

15. “Death is Life’s high meed.”

John Keats

Mortality, Life, Reward, Immortality, Reflection, Existential

16. “Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.”

George Bernard Shaw

Immortality Failure, Life Acceptance, Immortality, Failure, Acceptance, Life

17. “Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.”

Stephen King

Immortality, Life’s Meaning, Legacy, Human Existence, Personal Growth, Philosophy

18. “Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Whether it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.”

Thomas Jefferson

Experience, Legacy, Art, Expression, Immortality

19. “Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.”

William Blake

Mortality, Immortality, Loss, Gain, Philosophical Paradox, Spiritual Insight

20. “Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense!”

Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Immortality, Vibration, Immensity, Universal Energy

21. “Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”

Benjamin Franklin

Death, Immortality, Philosophy, Fear, Eternity

22. “From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.”

Ernest Hemingway

Creation, Writing, Invention, Reflection, Immortality