I suppose part of it is a subconscious desire for immortality.
Who could resist a pay cheque in the here and now for deferred immortality in the hereafter?
Because of some botched neurosurgery, he'll soon be confined there — a kind of death, but also a kind of immortality, since in the unconscious there is no time.
Yet as long as those waves continue to rise and fall, fluctuating in a continual cycle without ever dying into oblivion, then there is life, there is immortality. So why compare which wave is bigger and which smaller?
So we got the immortality of the soul after all.
The owner is far more immortal in that sense, close to the immortality, you know.
Most tycoons like the idea of their children running their empires when they are dead; I suppose part of it is a subconscious desire for immortality.
It is said that this joyful attitude towards death is a legacy of the Dacians who believed in the immortality of the soul and that death was only a passage to a better life.
Some excellent remarks were made on immortality, but mainly borrowed from and credited to Plato(Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Open that old tome from the bookshelf over the fireplace, stick your nose in its pages and smell the ink, the glue and the immortality of the printed words.
Poets and philosophers have long been attuned to the fact that the quest for immortality drives much of humanity's peculiar ways.
I had thus sought immortality by leaving my scratches on that immortal epic.
The crucial point here for us is that immortality means not just living a very long time or even an extraordinarily long time, but literally living forever.
I have not written down immortality, but leave the legendary mottled broken off the heart.
