#immortal

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#amidst #away #crush #dim #elements

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. ↗

— Woody Allen

#dying #i #immortality #through #want

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#always #appear #appetite #centuries #even

Literature is the immortality of speech. ↗

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#literature #speech

Reason is immortal, all else mortal. ↗

— Pythagoras

#immortal #mortal #reason

You are old and grey,” she teased. “And you’re never too immortal for a spanking,” he shot back... ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#humor #humour #immortal #mary-and-gwain #sexy

Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine. ↗

— Elizabeth Marx

#humor #immortality #reincarnation #death

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#alive #childish #cowardice #discover #easy

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#continuation #depended #destroy #dry #every

The only greatness for man is immortality. ↗

— James Dean

#immortality #man #only