Quotes About Immortality

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

What's freedom for? To know eternity.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.