Immortality - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. — Eleanor Roosevelt

"What? You don't think I'm perfect?" I can't resist, because he gets so riled whenever I bring it up. "I can run up to thirty miles without stopping. I can jump six feet in the air. There is not a material in this world sharp enough to pierce my skin. I cannot drown or suffocate. I am immune to every illness known to man. I have perfect memory. My senses are more acute than anyone else's. My reflexes rival those of a cat. I will never grow old" - my voice falls, all smugness gone - "and I will never die." — Jessica Khoury Origin

The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect joys of this world satisfy his heart. Man alone, of all created beings, displays a natural contempt of existence, and yet a boundless desire to exist; he scorns life, but he dreads annihilation. These different feelings incessantly urged his soul to the contemplation of a future state, and religion directs his musings thither. Religion, then, is simply another form of hope; and it is no less natural to the human heart than hope itself. — Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in...

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that whereas women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men - great men - must build monuments and seek fame? — Karen Essex Stealing Athena

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven, And...

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, {so frail may that web have been} we remember not that we have dreamed. — Edgar Allan Poe The Pit and the...

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point. — Aimee Bender The Color...

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