Quotes About Immortality

Real vampires don't get pain, we give it." Florence da Vinci, Real Vampires Live Large

If nobody had to die how would there be room enough for any of us who now live to have lived.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Jamás existió en el mundo nación de ateos, pues empezaron todas con alguna religión, y las religiones, sin salvedad, echaron su raigambre en aquel deseo, naturalmente común a los hombres, de vivir eternamente: y este universal deseo de la naturaleza humana nace de un común sentido, celado en la hondura de la mente humana, según el cual los ánimos de los hombres son inmortales.

Death was not eternal; Death was the only true mortal God ever created. It is no wonder we stare in horror at it ...

Nadie que ama muere jamás

Quiero tener ese hijo tuyo, amor. Dárteme desde dentro de mi vientre en una nueva prolongación de tu inmortalidad. Mostrarte hasta dónde puede crecer mi vida, como un árbol, si tú la riegas; hasta dónde puedo llegar a dárteme en todas las formas, en todos los momentos conscientes e inconscientes, llegar a ser tu río, tu sombra, la almohada suave donde apoyar tu cabeza, el viento, el mar, la risa, la mañana, tu cama, tu suelo, tu mujer.

The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.

When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. for nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Credidit ut Clmabos picturæ castra tenere Sic tenuit vivens, nunc tenet astra poli.

We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So that with freedom of choice and with honor, As thought the maker and molder of thyself, Thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have the power out of thy soul's judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine.

I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me.

All vampires smoke. Smoking's high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall.

the faithholder is his faith. He and it make, not two, but a single thing. Since he and it are one, there's no way to take it from him. That makes him a very powerful opponent. In fact, it makes him an unconquerable opponent; since even death can't touch him in his most important part.

A health to books!... Your goblets all refill; When all things mortal are decayed May books be with us still!

Who abdicated ambush And went the way of dusk, And now, against his subtle name, There stands an asterisk As confident of him as we; Impregnable we are – The whole of Immortality Secreted in a star.

It may be said that every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal. No man, however lofty and however humble, can isolate himself from his kind, and, shutting himself up in the dark cell of his exclusiveness, determine to live for himself alone. No man, however obscure, can truly say that he is so unknown, and so unimportant, that he can contribute nothing to enlighten and benefit Humanity... Let us grow in Love as well as in Knowledge...

So you're afraid, eh? he sneered. Yes, I said defiantly and honestly, I am afraid. That's the way with you fellows, he cried, half angrily, sentimentalizing about your immortal souls and afraid to die.

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. The life that is in you is alive and wants to go on being alive forever. Bah! An eternity of piggishness!

Superman and Batman got their start, we think, during the twenty-fourth century. Except for a brief period during the Dark Age, they've never gone away.