The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
Nothing but truth is immortal.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
‎I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.
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James Joyce
The physical world we live in is just the beginning.
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Doug Dillon
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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Dalai Lama Xiv
Men's lives are short. The hard man and his cruelties will be Cursed behind his back and mocked in death. But one whose heart and ways are kind - of himstrangers will bear report to the whole wide world, and distant men will praise him.-...
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Robert Fitzgerald
More Quotes By P.D. James
I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.
All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon...
