Quotes About Immortality

Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.

I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

When you love someone, they never die," Delia said. "They're always with you in your heart no matter what. Just as your parents live on in you, Natalie.

monde se tourne vers nous et dise : ces gens sont d'une race qui ne sait pas mourir... nous sommes un témoignage.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

Everything mortal has moments immortal, Swift and God-gifted, immeasurably bright.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

If progeny and heroism—descendants and earthly renown—do not enable us to confront death with a greater degree of serenity, if these attributes afford no true access to the good life, toward what source of wisdom then can we turn?

There is no place in nature for extinction.

Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal--that is clear.

She can raise from the tomb those of whom she speaks or writes, and make them live forever.

The belief in the immortality of man is the belief in the divinity of man[.]

The doctrine of immortality is the final doctrine of religion; … it speaks out what it has hitherto suppressed. If elsewhere the religious soul concerns itself with the existence of another being, here it openly considers only its own existence[.]

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years.

Stories outlive their writers all the time.

Well, as long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

PÃ…â"¢edstava, že bychom se mÄ›li odebrat na v??nost kv?li nÄ›jaké chybÄ› na tÃ…â"¢icátém desetinném místÄ›, které se dopustil neznámý programátor, se mi v?bec nelíbila.

The only true immortality lies in one's children. [ Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger ]

Thomas Jefferson still survives

A man will only be as long as his life but his name will be for all time.