Quotes About Immortality

The way sci-fi works, you can never die.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Hey, I've done a lot of other things, but I'm also very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be, 'The man responsible for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' just dropped dead. Frampton Drops Dead! after coming alive all these years.'

Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

What shall I say to you who will one day hear this last act for yourselves? You will—because whatever else shall pass away, this must remain.

There's a sea—a great sea—I love . . . It's where the Gods go to bathe.' 'What Gods?' 'The old ones. Before they died.' 'Gods don't die.' 'Yes, they do.

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

In irgendeiner Form leben wir alle nach unserem Tod weiter. In der Erinnerung anderer Menschen, von unseren Kindern. Und in dem, was wir geschaffen haben." "Schreibst du deshalb Bücher? Weil du keine Kinder hast?" "Ich will nicht ewig leben. Im Gegenteil. Ich möchte keine Spuren hinterlassen." "Doch", sagte Agnes.

The game is never over; there's no finish line this side of heat death.

Nothing's immortal on a road trip of a billion years. The universe runs down in stop-motion around you, your backups' backups' backups need backups. Not even the error-correcting replication strategies cadged from biology can keep the mutations at bay forever. It was true for us meatsicles cycling through mayfly moments every thousand years; it was just as true for the hardware.

TO HIMSELF EVERYONE IS IMMORTAL; HE MAY KNOW THAT HE IS GOING TO DIE, BUT HE CAN NEVER KNOW THAT HE IS DEAD. —

we're hard-core realists—we just pay lip service to death and decay and keep right on feeling immortal anyway.

On the flip side is Woody Allen's nebbish observation: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Companion words include mischief and bonchief, a bad result and a good result, respectively

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

What happens," called out Max, "if you win?" "We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained

Cattle die, kindred die, we ourselves shall die, but I know one thing that never dies: the reputations of each one dead.

Our best feelings, which God himself has planted in our hearts, instinctively revolt against the thought that a God of infinite love and justice should create millions of immortal beings in his own image—probably more than half of the human race—in order to hurry them from the womb to the tomb, and from the tomb to everlasting doom!

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

I come from a long line of forever people. We are forever. Here at the bottom of heaven we live in the circle. We back and gone and back again.

When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die - I always wish I had a better answer.

If you bury me in a grave, don't ever come visit - because you won't find me there. You'll find me in the books that I've read, the music I've listened to, and the art I've created.

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.