#immortal

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

#being #created #day #exist #god

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#enjoy #enjoy life #imagination #immature #immortal

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#christianity #common #conditioned #correspondence #could

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#associate #belief #conscious #continuance #existence

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#everyone #five #gadget #immortal #lasts

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#earth #full #gratitude #hearts #his

Immortality... Is that a super power? ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#power #super

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. ↗

— William James

#best #deserves #existence #i #immortal

How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of reality as they sit in the corners of our memories, losing their truth and shifting focus? The only way to hold onto these moments and share them for years to come, in all their beauty and truth and glorious imperfections, without losing accuracy is through a photograph. ↗

— Rosanne Moreland

#photography-memory-immortality #beauty

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#free #god #immortal #man #manifests