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Immortality
«One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun?which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...»
Author: Frances Burnett
| About:
Dawn,
Immortality,
Moments,
Time
| Keywords:
cry out, Far East, flush, flushed, flushes, goes out, majesty, marvelous, or so, solemn, The East, the pale, The Rising, The Strange, throws, unchanging, watches
«Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.»
Author: Susan Ertz
| About:
Immortality
| Keywords:
afternoon, afternoons, immortality, millions, rainy, Sunday
«Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Immortality,
Religion
| Keywords:
immortality, nearly, religions
«I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Achievement,
Funny,
Immortality
| Keywords:
achieve, dying, immortality
«I understand [Willy Loman's] longing for immortality Willy's writing his name in a cake of ice on a hot day, but he wishes he were writing in stone.»