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Quotes About Immortality

Something that her love had made would still be alive.
~ Diana Athill
Where is the fault? Is it believing that the people you love are immortal? Untouchable? No, everyone believes that. Only no one know it's what they believe- until it happens. Then comes the rage, the banging about the walls, crying what if, what if. Everyone is always so damned surprised, that is the horror of it.
~ Diana Evans
Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.
~ Diane Setterfield
Bush's "the French have no word for entrepreneur" is guaranteed immortality.
~ Dick Cavett
Easter is not about immortality but about resurrection from a death that is a real death with all its frightfulness and horrors, resurrection from a death of the body and the soul, of the whole person, resurrection by the power of God's mighty act. This is the Easter message.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The intelligent man should see to it that his friends are immortal, his enemies mortal.
~ Diodorus Siculus
No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible--it is a form of immortality
~ Djuna Barnes
Das Leben ist ewig; darin liegt seine Schönheit.
~ Djuna Barnes
No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible - its a form of immortality.
~ Djuna Barnes
It's so unfair. People suffered, worked, thought. So much wisdom, so much talent. And they're forgotten as soon as they die. We must do everything possible to keep their memories alive, because we will be treated in the same way ourselves.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
~ Doménico Cieri Estrada
Otherwise we attend to our poets when they are alive—to hear them, to praise them, to despise them, to use them. Death usually removes them. I expect my immortality to expire six minutes after my funeral. Literature is a zero-sum game.
~ Donald Hall
My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
~ Evita Peron
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
~ Saint Augustine
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
~ Epicurus
Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death
~ Hanshan
It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point, This is necessary.
~ Gabriele d'Annunzio
Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.
~ Hozier
Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.
~ Claude Vorilhon
I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.
~ Tilda Swinton
We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.
~ Michael Jackson
Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.
~ Bruce R. McConkie
This life is but the childhood of our immortality.
~ Denis Johnson