H. P. Lovecraft

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

American Novelist

Gordon B. Hinckley

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

American Clergyman

Charles Spurgeon

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

British Clergyman

Norman Cousins

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

American Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

German Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

American Philosopher

Bruce Lee

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

American Actor

Emily Dickinson

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

American Poet

Stephen King

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

German Writer

Relates to the literal idea of living with no end, often found in myths or fantasies.

Literal Forever

Highlights the aspect of staying forever young, common in fictional stories.

Not Aging

Sometimes used figuratively to mean something will never be forgotten.

Metaphorical Usage

Refers to someone's work or influence persisting and being honored over time.

Lasting Legacy

When one's achievements become a permanent part of cultural history.

Cultural Recognition

Immortality can be a way to recognize exceptional intellect or talent.

Acknowledging Geniuses

In religious contexts, it's the soul's continued existence after physical death.

Spiritual Continuity

Often features in religious doctrines as a reward for faith or good deeds.

Afterlife Promise

Religions often use it in stories to teach about life, death, and morality.

Mythical Context

 they only swim about two miles per hour and they only grow up to one centimeter every year which is half the growth rate of mount everest yeah a literal mountain grows faster than the greenland shark so it's really hard to imagine what doesn't grow faster than the greenland shark all this slow and prolonged life history gives them the power of immortality kind

Seven Superpowered...

 were trying to create a potion for immortality. Instead, what they created was a flammable powder that burned down many of their homes. They quickly realized that this black powder, which they called fire medicine, was precisely the opposite of something that would make you live forever. In these early days,

The deadly irony of...

 Scars. After all, immortality doesn't automatically translate to invincibility, it just means you cannot die. But it doesn't guarantee what condition you'll be alive in. Look at your body and count how many scars you have. If you have made this many permanent scars within your life,

If superpowers were...

 repeated by professors was that look these are you know these were humans and these were people and they gave their bodies to us so we have to be respectful don't really there's sort of a sense of immortality did she care about that I honestly don't think she cared about the

How a Woman's Donated...

 to securing his historical legacy because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign,

The incredible history...

 is called terror management theory, and the idea is simple. It's just this. We develop our worldviews, that is, the stories we tell ourselves about the world and our place in it, in order to help us manage the terror of death. And these immortality stories

The 4 stories we tell...

 to reflect the concerns of his chroniclers and their audiences. And we’re still rewriting and adapting the legend today. Whether or not the man ever lived, loved, reigned, or adventured, it’s undeniable that the character has achieved immortality.

Is there any truth to...

 like, what do we want to be when we grow up, when we move past this bumbling adolescence where we think there are no limits and suffer delusions of immortality? Well it's time to grow up, to be wiser, to be calmer, to be more considered.

Paul Gilding: The Earth...

 Sleep is a nonnegotiable biological necessity. It is your life-support system, and it is Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality. And the decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations

Sleep is your superpower...

 Mummification is an incredible process of drying out and embalming the body to preserve it, ready for its journey to immortality in the afterlife. Key to it all was the preparation of the body.

Immortality

Literal Forever

Not Aging

Metaphorical Usage

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