Quotes About Immortality

Immortality would have been meaningless, trapped in a "machine" with a finite number of possible states; in a finite time he would have exhausted the list of every possible thing he could be. Only the promise of eternal growth made sense of eternal life.

Had David Hawthorne, by another name, achieved the immortality he'd paid for? Or had he died somewhere along the way? There was no answer. The most that could be said, at any moment, was that someone existed who knew – or believed – that they'd once been David Hawthorne. And so Peer had made the conscious decision to let that be enough.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?" "That depends." "On what?" "On how I want to feel.

8Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough 9to live forever and never see the grave.

There is no seed of a god which has perished, neither has he who belongs to him. You will not perish, who belongs to him.

We feel immortal when we are young. Or maybe we just don't care that much about death yet?

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you

The struggle for immortality is a battle for the sceptre against the ghosts and sounds within us.

The soul is not a single unity; that is what it is destined to become, and that is what we call 'immortality'. Your soul is still composed of many 'selves', just as a colony of ants is composed of many single ants. You bear within you the spiritual remains of many thousand ancestors, the heads of your line.

Maybe it is the art that will outlive us all.

My voice repels death; my death; your death; my voice is my other. I write and you are not dead. The other is safe if I write.

Mira, Agustín: el más miserable, el más ignorante de nuestros pobres negros subsistirá después de quedar el mundo reducido a la nada. Su alma es inmortal como Dios.

When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever.... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

my life will always matter even in spirit

Perhaps some day, I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.

Perhaps someday, I will be gone. But what I believed and felt will live on.

The saddest thing in the world is, will people remember you when you are gone too.

Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither." William Wordsworth

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.

But this is the point. You die for your country, suppose. (He places his arm on Private Carr's sleeve.) Not that I wish it for you. But I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I don't want it to die. Damn death. Long live life!

Those of us who love being alive should strive with every fiber of our being to never die.