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Quotes About Immortality

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
~ Giacomo Casanova
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
~ Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.
~ Val Kilmer
I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
~ Paul McCartney
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
~ John Donne
The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]
~ Martial
I do not believe in my death.
~ Salvador Dali
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
~ Saul Bellow
The only way to kill death is through photography.
~ Jean Cocteau
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Someday death will take us to another star.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
~ Oliver Lodge
Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.
~ Unknown
I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.
~ John Milton
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
~ Edmund Spenser
I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.
~ J. K. Rowling
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
~ William Wordsworth
I have good hope that there is something after death.
~ Plato
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
I want to go on living even after death!
~ Anne Frank