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Quotes About Immortality

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
~ George Wald
Great men may die, but there ideas won't.
~ Kelly Nelson
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
~ Adam Smith
A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.
~ African Spir
Men cannot live forever But they must die forever.
~ Allen Tate
Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord's desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
~ Bruce R. McConkie
Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.
~ Cass McCombs
The vampire is not a bad man, and he loves you
~ Charlaine Harris
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
~ D. H. Lawrence
All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
~ Edward Young
Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
~ Emily Bronte
You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.
~ Garrett Fort
Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
~ George Chapman
Books are dead men talking.
~ George R. R. Martin
I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
a man who builds a house never really dies.
~ Margaret Mahy
We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If man can fly, it won't be something extraordinary! But if man can become immortal, now that will be extraordinary!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.
~ Myrtle Reed