Quotes About Immortality

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

For what blessing may a man hope for butAn immortality inThe loving vigilance of death.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.

Welcome to vampire-ville." He chuckled.

One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me-Search me not in my ashes, In my words, you can rummage me!

I am Josephine Darly, and I intend to live forever.

Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for ever more.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

All men desire to be immortal.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

Death does not exist.

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

I don't feel like I have a legacy.

I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over and over and over again, for all eternity.