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Quotes About Immortality

Definitely an undead, but not as undead as a vampire. Perhaps she was just mostly undead.
~ Ilona Andrews
What good is immortality if the people you love can't be there with you?
~ Ilona Andrews
Perhaps he has realised now that he's trapped here and has to suffer with us and become mortal and die.
~ Iris Murdoch
So what! So fuckin what! — So ye hud they powers, ye jist couldnae be bothered usin thum. That's why ah'm interested in ye Boab. You're jist like me. A lazy, apathetic, slovenly cunt. Now ah hate bein like this, n bein immortal, ah canny punish masel. Ah kin punish you though, mate. That's whit ah intend tae dae.
~ Irvine Welsh
No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.
~ Isaac Asimov
Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being since their own mortality is endurable only so long as it is universal.
~ Isaac Asimov
What I have done is to choose between the death of my body and the death of my aspirations and desires. To have let my body live at the cost of the greater death - That is the true violation of the Third Law. Not this. As a robot I might live forever, yes. But I tell you that I would rather die as a man than live eternally as a robot.
~ Isaac Asimov
Lo aún peor es que el Universo no morirá con nosotros. De manera firme e inmortal continúa hacia sus cambios cíclicos, añadiendo a la injuria de la muerte el insulto de la indiferencia.
~ Isaac Asimov
The dead don't go anywhere. They're all here. Each man is a cemetery. An actual cemetery, in which lie all our grandmothers and grandfathers, the father and mother, the wife, the child. Everyone is here all the time.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Hay grandeza y dignidad en la tragedia, por eso es fuente de inspiración, pero no quiero tragedia, por inmortal que sea, quiero una dicha sin bulla, íntima y muy discreta, para no provocar los celos de los dioses, siempre tan vengativos...
~ Isabel Allende
Se podía obtener la inmortalidad escribiendo un libro.
~ Isabel Allende
Neantul este plin de toate lucrurile universului. E neant si, in acelasi timp, e totul. Lumina sacramentala si intuneric nepatruns. Sunt neantul, sunt tot ce este, sunt in fiecare frunza, in fiecare picatura de roua, in fiecare graunte de cenusa purtat de ape, sunt Paula si sunt eu insami, nu sunt nimic si sunt totul, in viata asta si in celelalte, sunt nemuritoare.
~ Isabel Allende
muerte es un umbral hacia otra forma de existencia. El alma trasciende.
~ Isabel Allende
Como todos los que aman la vida, se sentían inmortales.
~ Isabel Allende
I happen to like vampires more than zombies.
~ Martin Scorsese
To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.
~ Vauvenargues
A book is the only immortality.
~ Rufus Choate
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
~ John Milton
God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality ....
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies! -
~ Christopher Marlowe
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
~ Clifton Fadiman
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
~ Robert S. Lund
The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
~ Edmund Spenser
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
~ William Faulkner