Quotes About Immortality

Eternity is the best policy.

He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn't afraid. "Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten," he said.

The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.

Though I'd never admit it aloud, the thought of living forever without a friend in the world frightened me.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

I cannot tell you if the dead, Who loved us fondly when on earth, Walk by our side, sit at our hearth, By ties of old affection led.... But this I know--in many dreams They come to us from realms afar, And leave the golden gates ajar Through which immortal glory streams.

The books may be immortal, but we are not.

Apenas se cuide. Os livros podem ser imortais, mas nós não somos.

I can't die. It would ruin my image.

Look upward, Feeble Ones! look up, and trust That He, who lays this mortal frame in dust, Still hath the immortal Spirit in His keeping In Jesus' sight they are not dead, but sleeping.

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.

I know not whether our names will be immortal; I am sure our friendship will.

It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.

Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two." He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified. "Too much information?

You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever.

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then.

But Magnus, he thought. You never told me. Never warned me it would be like this, that I would wake up one day and realize that I was going somewhere you couldn't follow. That we are essentially not the same. There's no "till death do us apart" for those who never die.

But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us." "You are mortal; you age; you die," the Queen said dismissively. "If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death.

Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did.

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.