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Quotes About Immortality

If they do kill me I shall never die another death.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Sadly, we can't live forever. But we can write something that will.
~ T.N. Suarez, The Limbo Tree
let us die young, or let us live forever, We dont have the power but we Never say Never.. Sooner or later we all will be gone, y dont u stay young?
~ Harry Styles
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
~ Sinclair Lewis
A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
~ Emily Dickinson
Fear of death and the desire to live on, somehow, if only through our children. Or our grandchildren. Quixotic quest for immortality. It's sad and heroic and doomed - all at the same time.
~ Will Ferguson
This is what the sprouts teach: immortality is not a matter of holding on, but of letting go.
~ William Bryant Logan
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.
~ William Butler Yeats
The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue
~ William Butler Yeats
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
~ William Faulkner
Not only is it not necessary to read "Interview With the Vampire" by Anne Rice before you die, it is also probably not necessary to read it even if, like Lestat, you are never going to die. If I were mortally ill, and a well-meaning friend pressed Anaïs Nin's "Delta of Venus" into my trembling hands, I would probably leave this world with a curse on my lips.
~ William Grimes
The greatest monarch the earth hath will be glad, in a dying hour, to change his crown for thy helmet. His crown will not procure him this helmet, but thy helmet will bring thee to a crown, when he shall have none to wear—a crown, not of gold, but of glory, which once on shall never be taken off, as his is sure to be.
~ William Gurnall
No young man ever thinks he shall die.
~ William Hazlitt
Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills
~ William Hazlitt
Words are the only things that last for ever.
~ William Hazlitt
The tomb lies at the end of every path. Only the soul is immortal. Guard this treasure well. Your decaying husk is but a temporary vessel on an endless voyage.
~ William Hjortsberg
That love, which fails of perfect utterance here, Lives on to fill the heavenly atmosphere With its immortal song.
~ William J. Bennett
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
~ William James
We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.
~ William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
~ William James
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
~ William James Dally
And immortality! Who will estimate the peace which a belief in a future life has brought to the sorrowing hearts of the sons of men?
~ William Jennings Bryan
Garden as though you will live forever.
~ William Kent
Before he'd shoved off in his canoe, he'd said, "We don't die. In the things we pass on to our children, we go on living.
~ William Kent Krueger