Quotes About Immortality

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortal coil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.

Very few people are remembered for long after they're in the ground.

I've always thought vampires were interesting because they live forever, they're always well-financed, they dress well, you know what I mean? And they're, like, cool. Usually vampire - you've never seen a broke vampire. Have you?

Why do you think there are no gods on Mount Olympus now? They killed themselves, that's why. They were terminally bored.

Nicholas Flamel

The acting area is a sacred space... where the actor cannot die.

concern that boosting telomerase activity could theoretically increase cancer risk, since tumors have been known to hijack the telomerase enzyme and use it to ensure their own immortality.75 But as we'll see in chapter 13, Dr. Ornish and his colleagues have used the same diet and lifestyle changes to halt and apparently reverse the progression of cancer in certain circumstances. We will also see how the same diet can reverse heart disease too.

A book is more durable than a man.

Time is our friend, because for us there is no end. He

Live forever or die trying.....

But Life, being Life, can never die at all. —FREDERICK TENNYSON

These vampires don't sparkle

My vampires don't sparkle ... they bite

From a footnote: Writes Clifton Fadiman: "A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

His awe of the mountains grew in the days that followed, as the Yellowstone River led him nearer and nearer. Their great mass was a marker, a benchmark fixed against time itself. Others might feel disquiet at the notion of something so much larger than themselves. But for Glass, there was a sense of sacrament that flowed from the mountains like a font, an immortality that made his quotidian pains seem inconsequential

Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

I am not talking about immortality now," Perenelle said, her Breton accent thickening. "We have lived for centuries, Nicholas, centuries. I am not afraid to die because I know that when we go, we will go together. It is living without you that would be unbearable.

Saracen The Knight: There will be a cost. Saint-Germain: Anything. I will pay anything to get my wife back. Saracen: Even your immortality? Saint-Germain: Even that. What's the point in living forever, when it is not with the woman I love?

That is the curse of immortality: to watch the world change, to see everything you know wither.

Nothing—Elder, Next Generation, immortal or human—was completely indestructible. Not even Areop-Enap. Perenelle herself had once brought an ancient temple down on the spider's head and it had shrugged off the attack—yet could it survive billions of poisonous flies?

What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

Ik heb wel de lotan.' Machiavelli en Billy keken hem wezenloos aan. 'Dé lotan,' zei Nereus. De twee onsterfelijken schudden hun hoofd. 'Ik heb geen idee wat dat is,' bekende Machiavelli.

How disorienting and isolating immortality must be, and how strong he must be to weather it.