If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust and in short of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down at last as every good fortune as every dynasty as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
We pray Thee O Christ to keep us under the spell of immortality. My we never again think and act as if Thou were dead. Let us more and more come to know Thee as a living Lord who hath promised to them that believe: Because I live ye shall live also. Help us to remember that we are praying to the Conqueror of Death that we may no longer be afraid nor dismayed by the world?s problems and threats since Thou hast overcome the world. In Thy strong name we ask for Thy living presence and Thy victorious power. Amen.
Our great thoughts our great affections the truths of our life never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness shall follow it whithersoever that shall go and are of their nature divine and immortal.
I dont want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust and in short of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down at last as every good fortune as every dynasty as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
What we have done for ourselves dies with us; what we have done for others remains and is immortal.
The fear of death is worse than death.
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half hour.
We do not know what to do with this short life yet we want another which will be eternal.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions But nearly all religions come from that hope.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man … to exist only for a day! No no man was made for immortality.
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.
Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
We pray Thee O Christ to keep us under the spell of immortality. My we never again think and act as if Thou were dead. Let us more and more come to know Thee as a living Lord who hath promised to them that believe: Because I live ye shall live also. Help us to remember that we are praying to the Conqueror of Death that we may no longer be afraid nor dismayed by the world?s problems and threats since Thou hast overcome the world. In Thy strong name we ask for Thy living presence and Thy victorious power. Amen.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Immortality a fate worse than death
Our great thoughts our great affections the truths of our life never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness shall follow it whithersoever that shall go and are of their nature divine and immortal.
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind but in the people your life has touched.
All men think all men mortal but themselves.