Quotes About Immortality

Which is why I have written this account. You, I hope, are one of those explorers. You, I hope, found these sheets of copper and deciphered the words engraved on their surfaces. And whether or not your brain is impelled by the air that once impelled mine, through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars...

Literature is the immortality of speech.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

There is no death. The body withers but the spirit still lives.

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

I have a thing for things that last.

Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.