Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Quotes on Secrets of Immortality

“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. “ -- Abraham Lincoln.

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” — Woody Allen.

“You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.” — Ernest Dimnent.

“There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.” -- Henry Van Dyke.

“Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.” — Stephen King.

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” — Susan Ertz.

“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 men-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 time.” — Charles Augustus Lindbergh.

“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.” — Herb Eugene Caen.

“A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. ‘I reckon,’ he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, ‘It’s because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.’” — Dorothea Kent.

“A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.” -- Jean Giraudoux.

“Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.“ --
Joan D. Vinge.

“Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.“ -- Bill Cosby.

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” -- Brandon Lee.

“I believe in the immortality of all creatures.” -- Egon Schiele.

“When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.” -- Henry Norris Russell.

“I would like immortality.” -- Len Wein.

“Immortality... Is that a super power?” -- Mark Wahlberg.

“For love is immortality.” -- Emily Dickinson.

“If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.” -- Alex Chiu.

“What is the secret to immortality? It’s quite simple; I don’t believe in death.” – From the book “Secrets of an Immortal – An Eyewitness to 2,800 Years of History” by Ben Abba.


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