Immortality Quotes
The search for something that lasts.
These immortality quotes explore how people and cultures have sought lasting legacy, from religious assurance to figures who achieved a kind of Arts-driven immortality.
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Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.
Always Quotes
There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle.
Approach Quotes
Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Arts Quotes
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
Assured Quotes
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
