“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”
Source: Farnham's Freehold
“A book is the only immortality.”
As quoted in Part of a Man's Life (1905) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
(1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
“There's no life
that couldn't be immortal
if only for a moment.”
Wisława Szymborska
(1923–2012) Polish writer
"On Death, Without Exaggeration"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)
Context: There's no life
that couldn't be immortal
if only for a moment.Death
always arrives by that very moment too late.In vain it tugs at the knob
of the invisible door.
As far as you've come can't be undone.
“Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.”
Peter Ustinov
(1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist
As quoted in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Great Quotes for All Occasions (2008) by Elaine Bernstein Partnow, p. 12
“I am not at all interested in immortality, only in the taste of tea.”
Laozi
(-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
From Lu Tong (also spelled as Lu Tung)
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“The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal”
Joseph Stalin
(1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Address to the Reception of Directors and Stakhanovites of the Metal Industry and the Coal Mining Industry http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1937/10/29.htm (29 October 1937)
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
Context: The confidence of the people in the worker-directors of the economy is a great thing, Comrades. The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal, everything else is ephemeral. That is why it is necessary to appreciate the full value of the confidence of the people.
Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark
(1894–1945) Secretary of Sarawak
Selections from the Works of Su-Tung-P'o (1931), as quoted in The Illustrated London News, Vol. 180 (1932), ed. 1, p. 254
Herb Caen
(1916–1997) American newspaper columnist
Caen, Herb. Herb Caen's San Francisco, 1976-1991, page 159. Chronicle Books, 1992. ISBN
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