Quotes About Immortality

With duller steel than the Perséan sword They cut away no formless monster's head, But one, whose gentleness did well accord With death, as life. The ancient harps have said, Love never dies, but lives, immortal Lord: If Love impersonate was ever dead, Pale Isabella kiss'd it, and low moan'd. 'Twas love; cold,--dead indeed, but not dethroned.

How long is this posthumous life of mine to last?

This is a mere matter of the moment. I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.

The faithful do not die; perhaps they become translated from this perishable world to the world of eternal existences.

His kiss made me human, his love made immortal.

Don't ever give up on life, because the essence of life itself is, Live forever!

Don't try to live forever - You can't! But you can do things that will live forever.

Death is the last chapter in time but the first chapter in eternity.

the grudges of gods are as deathless as their flesh,

I had stood beside my father's light. I had held Aeëtes in my arms, and my bed was heaped with thick-wooled blankets woven by immortal hands. But it was not until that moment that I think I had ever been warm.

I had understood gods could bleed, but I had never seen it. He was one of the greatest of our kind, and the drops that fell from him were golden, smearing his back with a terrible beauty.

My son must live. There is no must to the life of a mortal, except death.