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Quotes About Immortality

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
~ Banksy
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
~ William Styron
Every word written is a victory against death.
~ Unknown
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
~ Jacques Lipchitz
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
~ Leonard Baskin
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.
~ Dennis Hopper
One dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy
~ Eiichir? Oda
The final reward of the dead - to die no more
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't want to just die a normal death, I wanna be killed twice.
~ Eminem
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?
~ Richard Thompson
I shall hear in heaven.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.
~ Gautama Buddha
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
~ Sappho
What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
~ Robert E. Howard
There are some dead who are more alive than the living.
~ Romain Rolland
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
~ Charles Spurgeon
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
~ Samuel Butler
Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.
~ Edgar Cayce
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
~ Thomas Gray
There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
~ Emily Bronte