Quotes About Immortality

Chi per mestiere compra o vende si riconosce facilmente: ha l'occhio vigile e il volto teso, teme la frode o la medita, e sta in guardia come un gatto all'imbrunire. È un mestiere che tende a distruggere l'anima immortale; ci sono stati filosofi cortigiani, filosofi pulitori di lenti, perfino filosofi ingegneri e strateghi, ma nessun filosofo, che io sappia, era grossista o bottegaio.

Iamque opus exegi, quod nec Iovis ira nec ignes nec poterint ferrum nec edax abolere vetustas. cum volet, illa dies, quae nil nisi corporis huius ius habet, incerti spatium mihi finiat aevi: parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis astra ferar, nomenque erit indelibile nostrum, quaque patet domitis Romana potentia terris, ore legar populi, perque omnia saecula fama, siquid haben veri vatum praesagia, vivam.

Promise me, Amelie, that you'll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love." "I hardly think there's any chance of that," Amelie said. I doubt you have the capacity.

Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.

Welcome, Vassily said, and smiled. He showed teeth. To Immortal Battles. We don't fight to the death -- we fight beyond death, in the world's most dangerous sport.

Dead doesn't mean gone.

Live you can evade; death you cannot.

One of the good things about being twelve or younger is that you tend to believe that you'll live forever.

love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.

To you of great faith, I am the product of your wisdom and the guarantor of your immortality.

I used to believe our subconscious recognition of our true helplessness in the face of cosmic forces was what explained the insane lust for power that makes so many into murderers, rapists, thieves, and raving-mad ideologues. For their kind, such mean control allows the illusion of greatness, inspires even the foolish hope of immortality on Earth.

Life you can evade; death you cannot.

T. S. Eliot: LIFE YOU MAY EVADE, BUT DEATH YOU SHALL NOT.

If we live forever, it doesn't matter so much what happens to us here.

Every period of enlightenment is followed by a new and more efficient barbarism. They preach the necessity of truth even as they flee from it. Some believe in immortality through

To rot under marble or to rot under earth is still to rot.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

But what I do say is that there is nothing in this world or the next that can take ye from me—or me from you.

After all, I thought, what were days and weeks in the presence of eternity?

We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us.

Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us.

le Comte Saint Germain," he said, and paused

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

An author departs, he does not die.