Quotes About Immortality

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.

For only the body would die, whereas the loss of a soul is a great loss which is apparently without end;

Skin is a covering for our immortality.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about up to the age of twenty-two, but not after that. Then one ought to be giving one's mind to having fun without catching the pox, arranging one's life as comfortably as possible, having a few decent drawings on the wall, and above all writing well. That's the important thing: well-made sentences...and then a few metaphors. Yes, a few metaphors. They embellish a man's existence.

My name is Thanos, and my name means Immortality.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Our genes make us immortal.