Immortality Quotes - Page 10

• Inmortalidad, deslumbrante idea, ¿quién te imaginó por primera vez? ¿Fue algún alegre burgués de Nuremberg, que con su gorro de dormir en la cabeza y su pipa de arcilla blanca en la boca, se sentó en una agradable tarde de verano ante su puerta, y reflexionó en toda su comodidad, que sería muy agradable, si, con una pipa inextinguible y un aliento interminable, pudiera vegetar así durante una bendita eternidad? ¿O era un amante que, en los brazos de su amada, pensaba en la inmortalidad, y eso porque no podía pensar ni sentir otra cosa que... ¡Amor! ¡Inmortalidad!

  Heinrich Heine

  Muerte, Verano, Bendito

  Heinrich Heine (1891). "Las obras de Heinrich Heine".

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• Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Soul, Sainthood

  Anthony Burgess (1990). "You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess", Heinemann Educational Books

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• It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Adventure, Men

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

  Bertrand Russell

  Boys, Wish, World

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.32, Routledge

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• Si quieres ascender como el Profeta al cielo de la inmortalidad, debes saberlo muy bien: El ayuno es tu semental árabe.

  Rumi

  Sky, Want, Fasting

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• It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

  Vernon Howard

  Wise, Ambition, Defeat

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• Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.

  George Berkeley

  Nature, Mean, Simple

  George Berkeley (2015). “A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Our Actions, Action, Glorious

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.37

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• By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages.

  William Hazlitt

  Hurt, Reading, Flames

  William Hazlitt, Herschel Moreland Sikes, William Hallam Bonner, Gerald Lahey (1979). “The Letters of William Hazlitt”, p.224, Springer

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• Los hombres de vida disoluta tienen pocos incentivos para esperar las esperanzas y las glorias de la inmortalidad. Una debida concepción de éstas sería incompatible con una vida así.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Would Be, Looks

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• Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

  Ouida

  Death, Atheist, Oblivion

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.92, Ouida

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• All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Song, Writing, Pay

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.24

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• ¿Cómo puede entrar en el pensamiento del hombre que el alma, que es capaz de tan inmensas perfecciones y de recibir nuevas mejoras hasta la eternidad, se desvanezca en la nada casi tan pronto como es creada?

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Men, Perfection

  Joseph Addison (1842). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.171

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• If God bestowed immortality on every man then when he made him, and he made many to whom he never purposed to give his saving grace, what did his Lordship think that God gave any man immortality with purpose only to make him capable of immortal torments? It is a hard saying, and I think cannot piously be believed. I am sure it can never be proved by the canonical Scripture.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Hombres, Pensar, Dar

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.448

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• La tierra puede amargar, no quitar,
  El amor divinamente dado;
  Y cuando la pena mortal demuestre
  La inmortalidad del amor,
  y nos llevará más cerca del cielo.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Heaven, Sorrow

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1838). “The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett”, p.360

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• Una inmortalidad terrenal pertenece a un carácter grande y bueno. La historia lo embalsama; vive en su influencia moral, en su autoridad, en su ejemplo, en el recuerdo de las palabras y hechos en que se manifestó; y como cada época aumenta las ilustraciones de su eficacia, puede suceder que sea el mejor comprendido por una posteridad remota.

  Edward Everett

  Recuerdos, Personaje, Ilustración

  Edward Everett (1850). "Oraciones y discursos en diversas ocasiones", p.576

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• Cuando considero la maravillosa actividad de la mente, tan grande memoria de lo pasado, y tal capacidad de penetrar en el futuro: cuando contemplo tal número de artes y ciencias, y tal multitud de descubrimientos que surgen de ahí en adelante, creo y estoy firmemente persuadido de que una naturaleza que contiene tantas cosas en sí misma no puede ser mortal.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Art, Memories, Believe

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• Una composición que deslumbra a primera vista por epítetos llamativos, o giros brillantes o expresión, o trenes relucientes de imágenes, puede desvanecerse gradualmente de la mente, sin dejar ninguna impresión duradera; pero las palabras que fluyen frescas y cálidas de un corazón lleno, y que son instinto con la vida y el aliento de los sentimientos humanos, pasan a los recuerdos de la casa, y participan de la inmortalidad de los afectos de los que surgen.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Recuerdos, Primavera, Corazón

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). "Ensayos y reseñas", p.40

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• Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Soul, Doubt

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• El escéptico no se hace ilusiones sobre la vida, ni cree vanamente en la promesa de la inmortalidad. Puesto que esta vida aquí y ahora es todo lo que podemos conocer, nuestra opción más razonable es vivirla plenamente.

  Paul Kurtz

  Promesa, ateísmo, creencia

  Paul Kurtz (1986). "La tentación trascendental: Una crítica de la religión y lo paranormal"

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Mind, Wish, Atheism

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1921.

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• The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Survival, Mind

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• It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Atheism, Doe, Topics

  John Ruskin, Charles Eliot Norton, John Lewis Bradley, Ian Ousby (1987). “The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton”, p.175, Cambridge University Press

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• Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Soul, Criticism, Atheism

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.90, Princeton University Press

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• I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Forever, Tears

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