#immortality

A book is the only immortality. ↗

— Rufus Choate

#immortality #only

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #letter-writing #letters #the-mind #friendship

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #life #death

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness! ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#future #immortality #life #procreation #life

Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ↗

— John Milton

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I would live forever if I could, but not like this. ↗

— Gary Young

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Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark; leave a positive legacy! ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#immortality #life #life

The faery lords are immortal. Those who have songs ballads and stories written about them never die. Belief worship imagination we were born of the dreams and fears of mortals and if we are remembered even in some small way we will always exist. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#imagination #immortality #dreams

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#immortality #mediocrities #love