Quotes About Immortality

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

What is Aldous capable of?" "Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything." "Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?" "So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.

I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.

It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year

A good book is the precious life-blood of a masterspirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Un buen libro es la preciosa savia del alma de un maestro, embalsamada y atesorada intencionadamente para una vida más allá de la vida.

Ein gutes Buch ist der kostbare Lebenssaft eines meisterlichen Geistes, einbalsamiert und aufbewahrt zum Zweck eines Lebens über das Leben hinaus (...)

Love is the way that life forgets that it is terminal. Love is life's alibi in the face of death.

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

Dio promette la vita eterna" disse Eldritch. "Io posso fare di meglio; posso metterla in commercio.

Io sono vivo, voi siete morti

Do you think someday somebody will make a simulacrum of you and me? And we'll have to come back to life?

Und wenn Sie einmal gewesen sind, werden Sie für immer existieren.

I am. I shall always be.

Death is going to die.

And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We'll live in birds and flowers and and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams.

Every atom of me and every atom of you... we'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and in pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't be able to take just one, they'll have to take two, one for you and one for me.

We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

When you're young, you do think that things last forever

Is that what eternity is for, to muck over a lifetime's minutiae? Who could have imagined that one would have forever to remember each moment of life down to its tiniest component?

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

It's said that the only immortality a man can achieve is through his children. I understand that now.)