Quotes About Immortality

Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian: We are but mortals, and must sing of men.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

God's way of being alive is distinguishable from other forms of life. Plants, animals, and humans enjoy life at different scales of consciousness, movement, and self-determination. But in all plants, animals, and humans, bodily life ends in death. From the moment of conception, the processes of decay and death are at work in our bodies. Not so in God's life. God's life is eternally alive. God's life is not only without end but without beginning.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

In any event, Socrates' proof of prenatal immortality is that one of Meno's uneducated slave boys actually comes up with the Pythagorean theorem without ever having studied geometry! Therefore, he must be remembering it. You recall that theorem: in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Huh? We can barely remember that from tenth grade, let alone from before we were born.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

Music is never-ending, that's what I love about it. Even after we're dead, this music will still exist... that's the best bit. That's metal.

I thought: I didn't live forever.

My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.

We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists

They had no fear of death, and whoever has no fear of death—the centurion had often meditated on this here in the East—whoever has no fear of death is immortal.

And I am glad, because although no one else in the world remembers him now, he will live inside me as long as I live. We shall die together. This grandfather was the first to make me wish not to die - so that the dead within me should not die. Since then, many departed dead ones have sunk, not into the grave, but into my memory, and I know now that as long as I live they shall live too.

He did not die. The only ones who die are those who are too late to become immortal. He was not too late. God granted him time.

How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.

Fill this cup to that love that never changes, never! Fill this cup to the love that goes on living forever! To the love that has been purified by earthly woes and at last with everlasting bliss... divinely glows!

On it I read most of Anthony Trollope and all of Edith Wharton, both of whom are dead and can't be written to. Too bad; I'd like to tell them their books are as contemporary as they were when they were written.

Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?

So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without actually writing about them. I

I will live forever, or at least until I'm forty-five.

Literary posterity may

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

This isn't really death,' Tyler says. 'We'll be legend. We won't grow old.' I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires.

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.