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Quotes About Immortality

Amíg egyikünk él, mind a ketten élünk.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I suppose it is just the loss of the immortality, he thought. Well, in a way that is quite a lot to lose.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In the chair, watching the fire and thinking of Pop and how sad it was that he was not immortal, and how happy I was that he had been able to be with us so much, that we'd been lucky enough to have three or four things together that were like the Old Days along with just the happiness of being together and talking and joking, I fell asleep.
~ Ernest Hemingway
went to the cafés at the corner of the Boulevard Montparnasse and the Boulevard Raspail to be seen publicly and in a way such places anticipated the columnists as the daily substitutes for immortality.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He is performing a work of art and he is playing with death, bringing it closer, closer, closer, to himself, a death that you know is in the horns because you have the canvas-covered bodies of the horses on the sand to prove it. He gives the feeling of his immortality, and, as you watch it, it becomes yours. Then when it belongs to both of you, he proves it with the sword.
~ Ernest Hemingway
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these moral standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very moral to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but very fine.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
It's our turn! she'd thought exultantly. And we're going to live forever.
~ Eudora Welty
C'est pour cela que les jeunes se suicident ou qu'on les tue. Ainsi on les cloue dans leur jeunesse pour toujours, dans les panoplies de l'éternité.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Only Coleridge was philosophically brilliant enough to understand that their declarations about nature—its immortality, its beauty and truth—needed to rest upon the supernatural, "a kind of common sensorium"—as he called Jesus Christ—"the total Idea that modifies all thoughts.
~ Andrew Klavan
They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.
~ Andrew Klavan
In fact, I didn't really want to have final words at all, unless they involved something like, "At last, I have transcended beyond the boundaries of my frail human existence.
~ Andrew Rowe
You surround the dead with veneration and memory, you dream of immortality, and in your myths and legends there's always someone being resurrected, conquering death. But were your esteemed late great-grandfather really to suddenly rise from the grave and order a beer, panic would ensue.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The wish, Geralt! Hurry up! What do you desire? Immortality? Riches? Fame? Power? Might? Privileges? Hurry, we haven't any time!' He was silent. 'Humanity,' she said suddenly, smiling nastily. 'I've guessed, haven't I? That's what you want, that's what you dream of! Of release, of the freedom to be who you want, not who you have to be. The djinn will fulfil that wish, Geralt. Just say it.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The villagers almost beat me to death, but fortunately they didn't know how to go about it . . . They punctured me with stakes, chopped my head off, poured holy water all over me and buried me. Can you imagine how I felt when I woke up?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Kim by?my byli, gdyby?my mieli tylko jednego s?siada, a z drugiej strony morze albo Wielskie Ksi?stwo Luksemburg? Byliby?my nikim. Co najwy?ej jeszcze jedn? umieraj?c? z nudów zachodni? demokracj?, jeszcze jedn? postmodernistyczn? republik?, w której g?ównym problemem jest wynajdowanie sposobów sp?dzania wolnego czasu, przeszczepy narz?dów oraz nie?miertelno??.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
We exist in the midst of eternity all the time.
~ Andy Couturier
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
~ Andy Rooney
Marcellus," said Julius, sounding somewhat unenthusiastic. "Um, how are you?" Marcellus smiled. "Alive," he said tersely… Julius, you snake. It has taken me nearly five hundred years to figure this out, but now at last I know what caused the Great Alchemie Disaster... you!
~ Angie Sage
Annie found herself being drawn into the conversation despite herself. She'd been terrified of dying since she was a child. Not the reality of pain or illness, but the idea of the world going on without her.
~ Ann Cleeves
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
~ A. N. Wilson
Every musician that dies is the greatest ever when they die. I never heard a David Bowie record in my life. But for whatever reason, he's one of the greatest of all time now. You know why? 'Cause he's dead.
~ Charlamagne tha God
However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
~ Nazim Hikmet