#immortal

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#continued #creativity #current #era #immortality

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#immortality #itself #marks #mathematics #off

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#desirable #guess #i #images #immortality

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#circle-of-life #death #immortality #life #mortality

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#earth #forget #immortal #man #mortal

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations. ↗

— John Banville

#death #grief #immortality #life-goes-on #loss

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#doing #doing good #good #good things #immortality

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#immortality #key #life #living #remembering

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#believe #believing #cannot #help #immortality

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. ↗