Immortality Quotes

Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ...

. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing fro...

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

I'm immortal. You consider the future because one day you'll die. I don't have that uncertainty." - ...

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to m...

When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the w...

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical id...

If the Earth were not subject to any change I would consider the Earth a big but useless body in uni...

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal ...

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe he is dead.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in ...

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved ...

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the...

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorro...

Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perf...

Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /...

Well, the death of the body is the flight of the arrow. It's makin' a straight line for the brain. N...

If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the...

O, never from the memory of my heartYour dear, paternal image shall depart,Who while on earth, ere y...

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to pro...

I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of histori...

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly befor...

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to ho...

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - ...

How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will o...

The ‘Elves’ are ‘immortal’, at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with ...

Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, a...

‎I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing...

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to ...

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

The only true immortality lies in one's chi

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little ...

Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever.

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on....

Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spiri...

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward ...

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and ...

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and ...

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and ...

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and ...

This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk.""Maybe both of us have got a piece of ...

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorke...

All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep ...

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in ea...

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs ...

But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a...

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grav...

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.