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Quotes About Immortality

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?
~ Norman Jewison
But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.
~ Rebecca Skloot
Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
~ Alexander Payne
I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It'd be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!
~ Jackson Rathbone
What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?
~ Nora Roberts
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
~ Maurice Sendak
I got in trouble with the stern-faced Russians who didn't want me to create a guy who is mortal.
~ Peter Greenaway
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
~ Alma Guillermoprieto
Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.
~ Ann Aguirre
From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Rake was an atmosphere, a heart-thudding, terror-threaded presence no-one could ignore, much less escape. Violence, antiquity, sombre pathos, and darkest horror – the Son of Darkness was a gelid eddy in immortality's current
~ Steven Erikson
This is what was, once. Terrible armies of T'lan Imass. We hunted down the Jaghut. We gave them what I see here. By all the spirits, is this our only voice?
~ Steven Erikson
In truth, he was far less haunted by his immortality than most T'lan Imass. There was always something else to see, after all.
~ Steven Erikson
Plan on living for ever, Kallor?' 'Yes, I do.' 'What if your stupidity gets you killed?' Kallor's grin was feral. 'It hasn't yet.' Skintick glanced back again, eyes bright, and all at once he laughed. 'I am changing my mind about you.
~ Steven Erikson
He sensed wry amusement in Hood. ' One day, even the gods will answer to death.
~ Steven Erikson
We're all born to die, you idiot. Let the span last a single heartbeat, let it last a thousand years. Stretch the heartbeat out, crush down the centuries, it's no different. They feel the same, when the end arrives. Gods, they feel the same!
~ Steven Erikson
No one lets dead poets lie in peace. We are like old meat on a crowded dinner table.
~ Steven Erikson
Rake was an atmosphere, a heart-thudding, terror-threaded presence no-one could ignore, much less escape. Violence, antiquity, sombre pathos, and darkest horror – the Son of Darkness was a gelid eddy in immortality's current, and the Mhybe could feel, crawling beneath her very skin, every Rhivi spirit awakened in desperation.
~ Steven Erikson
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
~ Steven Wright
People who lived in the 1900s and 2000s lived 1000 years
~ Stoian Andrei
The flesh tingled only slightly. Louis was no voracious monster like Emilia Manden. A slight glow still played around Louis's lips, which were shuddering. Othman knew the ichor would have tasted wonderful, literally divine
~ Storm Constantine
Our immortal blood, while not so potent as to grant immortality to humankind can, if imbibed on a regular basis, at least double their lifespan.
~ Storm Constantine
Humanity is our sustenance! Without them, we have no immortality. Without them, we all die. Humanity and elohim need each other.
~ Storm Constantine