“To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”
The quote "To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal." is famous quote attributed to John Berger (1926–2017), British painter, writer and art critic.
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British painter, writer and art critic 1926–2017Related quotes
“Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.”
"Living Testament" speech http://video.cpt12.org/video/2364991008 at 11th Hour, Colorado Public Television (1994)
“All men desire to be immortal.”
A Sermon on the Immortal Life (20 September 1846).
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
It has no technique and therefore no authority. When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy — if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that is part of meditation.
1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Нет бессмертия души, так нет и добродетели, значит, всё позволено. … Без бога-то и без будущей жизни? Ведь это, стало быть, теперь всё позволено, всё можно делать?
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
Source: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913), The Crowning Hour, II
Context: p>If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming
Can touch life's height to a finer fire:
Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming
Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason,
One lightning over the chasm runs —
That to turn from love is the world's one treason
That darkens all the suns.</p
