Immortality Quotes

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

I am conscious of eternal life.

I look through the grave into heaven.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.

I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

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

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

This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk.""Maybe both of us have got a piece of him, " said Lee. Maybe that's what immortality is.

His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.

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

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

The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple.

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

Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp.

The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.

Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.

Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again

Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Nothing is forever. Except atoms.

Hope is the last thing that dies.Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

I was made to rule the darkness.

Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.

Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?

Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.

While death and darkness girdle meI grope for immortality.

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

The only way to find out if you're immortal is to make it to the end of time and look around to see if you're still alive. Until you've done that, all you know is that you haven't died yet.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

‎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.