Immortality Quotes

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no rela...

No doubt my books too, like my mortal being, would eventually die, one day. But one has to resign on...

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you sa...

It's while it's being lived that life is immortal, while it's still alive. Immortality is not a matt...

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does ...

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in moveme...

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as a...

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, w...

He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes w...

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't under...

The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to ...

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think...

Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies ...

The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every m...

Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and f...

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god...

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will ...

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this ...

For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.

A book is the only immortality.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me be...

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr...

From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifti...

Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really in...

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save...

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not...

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think som...

Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup w...

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it...

...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think th...

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality...

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immorta...

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it...

Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not...

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead...

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, cons...

The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds wh...

But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bo...

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter....

I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and...

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves i...

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so...

Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!

When I was girl by Nilus stream I watched the deserts stars arise; My lover, he who dreamed the Sphi...

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang ...

The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect ...

Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous mo...

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fle...

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to th...

Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or r...

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop ...

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of ...

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My...

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we ...

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created...

A good man never dies.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering ...

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclips...

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such ...

Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your hear...

It took courage to live an immortal life and not close off your heart and mind to any new experience...

We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fe...

It was as hard to comprehend that your life would never end as it was to comprehend that it would.

You know, there's a reason we can remember," [Catarina] said more softly."That's much easier when yo...

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one aft...

Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for ...

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the...

Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing ...

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books su...

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.

Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he s...