#immortality

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot? ↗

— Anne Rice

#immortality

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fame #immortality #unfinished-works #writing #literary-criticism

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#anime #giving-up #hellsing #humanity #immortality

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#deeply #immortality #learn #lies #life

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#believe #immortality #marriage #should #soul

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#itself #love #perpetuate #wishes

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

Literature is the immortality of speech. ↗

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#literature #speech

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

— Elizabeth Marx

#humor #immortality #reincarnation #death

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