Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260
“Whoever says he knows that immortality is a fact is merely hoping that it is.”
Source: Why I am Not a Believer (1926), p. 140
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“I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Hope floods my heart with delight!”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Dryad Song (1900)
Context: I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Hope floods my heart with delight!
Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling,
Upward I mount, — faith is sight, life is feeling,
Hope is the day-star of might!
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
Testifying before the Canadian Senate in opposition to the Meech Lake Accord (1988-03-30)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Ignorance of Death
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIII - Death
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
“Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.”
Gregory Benford (1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist
Part 2 “Aleph”, Chapter 1 (p. 45)
Against Infinity (1983)
“To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.”
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
Kirilov
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
“Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”
Terry Pratchett book Night Watch
Source: Night Watch