Quotes About Immortality

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard to achieve after all. Why then does he persist in inscribing marks on paper, in the faint hope that people not yet born will take the trouble to decipher them?

When death cuts all other links, there remains the name. Baptism: the union of a soul with a name, the name it will carry into eternity.

Estás conmigo, pero no de la misma forma que estás en América, no cuando estabas cuando te marchaste, sino estando de una forma profunda e inmutable: como el amado, como ese que no muere. Es a tu alma a quien me dirijo, igual que será mi alma la que se quedará contigo cuando esta carta termine

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us that one must have lost all feeling not to care about knowing the facts of the matter.

V jerked back to the present. And for some reason didn't lie. I'm thinking about my tattoos. When did you get them? Almost three centuries ago. She whistled. God, you live that long? Longer. Assuming I don't get cracked dead in a fight and you fool humans don't blow up the planet, I'll be breathing for another seven hundred years.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

Vampire porn does not go out of style.

Death was one sure way to find peace, Rhage thought. And everyone died. Even vampires. Eventually.

Children were the only immortality mortals got—and even then, two generations later, three at the most, no one knew you in person anymore.

Because love, after all, was eternal and not subject to the whims of death.

I fell in love with one. And he fell in love with me." And then I died and his mother brought me back to life—it's great to have demigods as in-laws.

Last fight I had with the bitch ended way too soon." Eddie rolled his eyes and glanced at Jim. "It was back in the Middle Ages and he still hasn't gotten over it." "Why so long ago?" "We got put on ice," Eddie said. "We were a little more fallen than the bosses were comfortable with." Adrian

La muerte es una forma segura de hallar la paz, pensó Rhage. Y todos morían. Incluso los vampiros.

What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.

I wonder why our life must quiver between beauty and guilt, consummation and sadness, desire and regret, immortality and tattered moments unknowable, truth and beautiful meaningful lies.

I dunno, remember when we were in East St. Louis with George, and Jack you said you'd love those beautiful dancing girls if you knew they would live forever as beautiful as they are? (p. 173)

But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

Why should I and the beauty in me be ruled by the dead? Beauty is alive and everlasting. Languages come and go. They are the dust of the dead.

I'd rather be ashes than dust

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of permanent - inasmuch as anything is. When I went to see Buster Keaton when I was about 14 and I came out of the cinema having really laughed at this film which had been made 50 years before, I thought: That's immortality. It's fantastic.

Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead.