David Ogilvy Quotes

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

I don't have an end game. Being a celestial being, I live for the moment to fight the Great War, and that is to light the darkness.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

To become immortal, and then to die.

And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death

In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the spirit leaves the body dead to us, and passes to the other side of the veil alive to that great and noble company that are also working for the accomplishment of the purpose of God, in the redemption and salvation of a fallen world.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!

Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Thus, my friend archbishop Joe Reia says, "A sad Christian is a phony Christian, and a guilty Christian is no Christian at all.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.

The worship of Christ is our joy and privilege today. And tomorrow, and next Sunday, and for all eternity.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.