Quotes About Immortality

I can tell you what love means, dictionary-wise, all the synonyms and so forth. And I can tell you all about endorphins and synapses and muscle memory. But ardour's resonance in the heart is a mystery to me. I'm a computer, Arthur. Arthur hid his disappointment with the traditional brisk rubbing of hands and stiffening of upper lip. Of course. No problem. I am made to live for ever but you are made to live.

Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvâna), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those

Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

I thought in over a thousand years I'd seen all there was to see.

You want to be a poet and not die.

The Greeks—who knew everything—knew that immortality without youth was to be feared rather than desired.

Is life much too long for an immortal?

There's no shame in loving life above death. Otherwise I would be dead. What use would that be to the gods, who will not die themselves?

Tanti Roz, mi se pare c? au inventat un alt spital decât cel real. Se prefac c? oamenii vin la spital decât ca s? se vindece. DeÈ™i unii vin ca s? moar?. -Ai dreptate,Oscar. ?i cred c? facem aceeaÈ™i greÈ™eal? È™i în privinÈ›a vieÈ›ii. Uit?m c? viaÈ›a e fragil?, f?râmicioas?, efemer?. Ne credem toÈ›i nemuritori.

Je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile,friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

J'ai l'impression, Mamie-Rose, qu'on a inventé un autre hôpital que celui qui existe vraiment. On fait comme si on ne venait à l'hôpital que pour guérir. Alors qu'on y vient aussi pour mourir. - Tu as raison, Oscar. Et je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile, friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

Dimentichiamo che la vita è fragile, friabile, effimera. Facciamo tutti finta di essere immortali.

Tanti Roz, mi se pare c? au inventat un alt spital decât cel real. Se prefac c? oamenii nu vin la spital decât ca s? se vindece. DeÈ™i unii vin ca s? moar?. -Ai dreptate, Oscar. ?i cred c? facem aceeaÈ™i greÈ™eal? È™i-n privinÈ›a vieÈ›ii. Uit?m c? viaÈ›a e fragil?, f?râmicioas?, efemer?. Ne credem toÈ›i nemuritori.

Arise, we have eternity for sleeping!' OMAR KHAYYAM

The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

Everything mortal has moments immortal

Words often outlive the people who create them.

Perhaps it makes sense that a creature that doesn't get ill and has few enemies among its neighbors would also live agelessly and die without explanation or cause--would simply vanish without a trace.

But since We Mortals vainly try To purchase Immortality, It is as vain to Sigh and Grieve, And fearing Death, neglect to Live.

A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.

I'm filled with desire—to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.