Quotes About Immortality

A large stone was then lowered down on the grave, and covered the moderate space now sufficient for the man for whom Europe was once too little.

you can never be harmed or destroyed, for you are not your body.

I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed the prayer at all showed how human He was. That He knew it could not be granted showed his divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal.

I finally knew, I told him, why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one of us. Once He had become mortal, He could not become immortal except by dying. That He prayed that prayer at all showed how human He was. That He knew it could not be granted showed His divinity; that He prayed it anyhow showed His mortality, His mortal love of life that His death made immortal.

TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE

You were right about writers." Her voice was a whisper. "How's that?" "They die. Their words don't.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

All human affairs rest upon probabilities, and the same thing is true everywhere. If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted would betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every great fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

Besides, if comics have taught us anything, it's that death is rarely a permanent condition." "But we're not superheroes," May argued. "Speak for yourself," Jackdaw told her.

After God perfected the sunrise, he created photographers, artists, and poets to ensure his feat remained immortal.

Skin is a covering for our immortality.

Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

As rolling rivers never cease To pour their currents in the sea, So years succeeding years increase The ocean of eternity.

I did not say she was alive, my child... I go no further than to say that she might be Un-Dead.

[I]t is out of the lore and experience of the ancients and all of those who have studied the powers of the Un-Dead. When they become such, there comes with the change the curse of immortality; they cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world; for all that die from the preying of the Un-Dead become themselves Un-Dead, and prey on their kind. And so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the ripples from a stone thrown in the water.

Vampire: a toothy phlebotomist.

My soul to keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.

The physical world of matter is a reality. But it is a reality within a larger reality. Matter is made of energy. Everything in the universe is made of energy. We have consciousness. We are consciousness aware of itself. We are pure conscious energy. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. So, we are immortal pure conscious energy. We have existed before our human incarnation, and we will still exist after. We are immortal pure conscious energy.

Two things do not extinct from our life, death ans God.

We [sea folk] can live to be three hundred years old, but when we perish we turn into mere foam on the sea.

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.

I don't really care whether I live that long or not, It's just that when I die, I dont want to leave any enemies, and I figure the only way to do that is to outlive them all.