Quotes About Immortality

Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality…and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

It occurs to me that the Grendel tale is premature. The players have not been brought upon the stage. Dislinear plotting and noncontiguous prose have their adherents, not the least of which am I, but in the end, my friends, it is character which wins or loses immortality upon the vellum.

We all want to leave monuments

Two waves in the ocean are talking to each other. The front wave tells the second that it's frightened because it is about to crash into the shore and cease to exist. But the second wave shows no fear. It explains to the first: You are frightened because you think you are a wave; I am not frightened because know I am part of the ocean.

Forever and ever, world without end.

All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal, did you know that?

My father gave me early indications that he would live forever. One

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal, did you know that?" I

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn't mean I am immortal. It doesn't mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell – we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.

Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

Life never stops, ever ends, it goes on even after the death.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.

All would live long but none would be old.

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

Eumenes had been with her more than 400 years, Lollia nearly as long. Until now not one of her transformations had failed to last 200 years. Was she getting worse at it, or was the strength of the human stock in decline?