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13. “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
16. “The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.” E.M. Forster Immortality, Society, Assumptions, Humanity, Resilience, Authenticity
19. “If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them. But until that day their untiring joys and sorrows must ever be one-half of their fascination. Love with them never grows weary, nor can the circles of the stars tire out their dancing feet.” William Butler Yeats Fairy Joys, Long-Lived Love, Dancing Stars, Immortality, Fascination, Unending
26. “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
Immortality Quotes by Famous Authors
13. “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
16. “The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.”
E.M. Forster Immortality, Society, Assumptions, Humanity, Resilience, Authenticity
19. “If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them. But until that day their untiring joys and sorrows must ever be one-half of their fascination. Love with them never grows weary, nor can the circles of the stars tire out their dancing feet.”
William Butler Yeats Fairy Joys, Long-Lived Love, Dancing Stars, Immortality, Fascination, Unending
26. “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
