Quotes About Immortality

Our lifetime is short and limited, but the ideas, actions and thoughts we produce can easily remain unlimited.

Youth is not immortality, more than anything, youth is the power to make choices.

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

Our love of life is only an old connexion of which we do not know how to rid ourself. Its strength lies in its permanence. But death which severs it will cure us of the desire for immortality.

his imagination and did not feed his jealousy. Swann's mind would become exhausted, until, passing his hand over his eyes, he would exclaim: "We must trust in God," like those who, after having persisted in embracing the problem of the reality of the external world or the immortality of the soul, grant their tired brains the relief of an act of faith.

This reaction from the disappointment which great works of art cause at first may in fact be attributed to a weakening of the initial impression or to the effort necessary to lay bare the truth—two hypotheses which recur in all important questions, questions about the truth of Art, of Reality, of the Immortality of the Soul; we must choose between them;

Bir insan öldükten sonra, e?er sanatç?ysa ve eserine kendinden bir ?eyler katm??sa, o insan?n bir parças?n?n ya?amaya devam edebilece?i söylenir bazen. Belki ayn? ?ekilde, bir insandan al?n?p ba?ka bir insan?n kalbine a??lanan sürgün de, al?nd??? insan yok olduktan sonra bile ya?amaya devam eder.

Our love of life is no more than an old affair that we do not know how to discontinue. Its strength lies in its permanence. But death, which interrupts it, will cure us of our desire for immortality.

Men who believe that their work will last—as was the case with Elstir—form the habit of placing that work in a period when they themselves will have crumbled into dust. And thus, by obliging them to reflect on their own extinction, the thought of fame saddens them because it is inseparable from the thought of death

Vas a vivir siempre joven, según la teoría de Denevi. Decime, ¿sabés quién es Marco Denevi?

He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.

But you can take the energy from others," Sonny said. "Kill here, the sky gets brighter, food tastes better. Do it enough and maybe you live forever.

to be remembered in the heart of a loved one is to live forever

That is the power of the book. Immortality, for better, or for worse. It is majestic, in its way, this immortality. And power. Once a story is started, once a lie is told, it is very difficult to un-tell it . . .

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.

There's more than one path to immortality.

We're all going to die, but most of us won't go out in glory. Here's what matters, though, for men: not living, but living on in legend.

The opposite of death is soul.

We are all pilgrims, in search of destiny, of a soul, an illusion, of a land of immortality.

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