Quotes About Immortality

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

I'd begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across Texas in a great mobile metaphor for the inevitable decline of all things, the disintegration of all systems over time.

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

Sometimes I feel like a vampire

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

They never die, who have the future in them.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Take hold of this (charm) that subjects to immortality (life), may thy life unto old age not be cut off! I bring to thee anew breath and life, not to mist and darkness, do.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

No one has ever come back from the other world. I can't console you, but one thing I can tell you, as long as my ideas are alive I will be alive. We live in a dark frightening age. One reason for this is the part played by the ideology of inhumanity.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.