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Quotes About Immortality

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.
~ John Ashbery
Don't we all hope for some form of immortality? We might not be able to breathe forever but there are other ways to stay alive.
~ John Boyne
And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead.
~ John Boyne
He died at the house of one Mr Struddock, a grocer, at the Star on Snow Hill, in the parish of St Sepulchre's, London, on the 12th of August 1688, and in the sixtieth year of his age, after ten days' sickness; and was buried in the new burying place near the Artillery Ground; where he sleeps to the morning of the resurrection, in hopes of a glorious rising to an incorruptible immortality of joy and happiness;
~ John Bunyan
The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER
~ John C. Maxwell
Moving on is hard, knowing she can never see him again is hard, finding herself immortal with no one is hard, watching her family fade and die is hard, knowing that now, she really could spend the rest of her life with him, is killing her.
~ Unknown
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
~ Andre Gide
Take courage, Mortal... Death cannot banish you from the Universe.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
~ Terry Pratchett
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]
~ Thomas a Kempis
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!
~ Ouida
Death hath no dominion.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You die and die and then you are beyond death.
~ C. S. Lewis
When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.
~ Curtis Jackson
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.
~ Edward Young
Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.
~ Epicurus
You have all died many times before and none of you look the worse for it.
~ Frederick Lenz
In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it.
~ Frederick Lenz
Man has created death.
~ William Butler Yeats
Death cannot kill that which does not die.
~ William Penn
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.]
~ Alexander the Great