Quotes About Immortality

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

Man was made to be immortal; else, he could not survive being the fool he is.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

Var olan evcil domuzlar?n?za boyun e?in siz. Var olmayan tanr?lar?m?n yolundan gidece?im ben. ?nsan kalaca??z biz ba???lanmazl?k pahas?na.

The waters were his winding sheet, the sea was made for his tomb;Yet for his fame the ocean sea, was not sufficient room.

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive in books I see what is yet to come... All things decay and pass in time... All fame would fall into oblivion if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them

Christianity did, holding Jesus out not just as a model of right behavior, but an elder brother whose inheritance of immortality all God's children might share.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! William Wordsworth - Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

Nobody a writer ever loved is dead.

Here's the thing about an apple: it sticks in the throat. It's a package deal: lust and understanding. Immortality and death. Sweet pulp with cyanide seeds.

Civilization will fade away, but that will go on forever.

Generosity is meaningless to a god, who never suffers shortage or want; courage is meaningless to a god, who is immortal and can never suffer permanent injury, and so on. Our virtues and our dignity arise from our mortality, our humanity—and not from any success in being God.

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

love, not death, is the eternal thing.

The pressed clay or "dust" of Adam has then become the immortal diamond that is Christ.

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Hey, I'm a Poseidon kid," he said. "I can't drown. And neither can my pancakes.