Quotes About Immortality

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

I just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed I was never going to die, and I'd been adopted and put on Earth because there was a war... and still sometimes, as I get older, I hope for my immortal life on Mars.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

I do think it's really tough being super-rich, really hard-working and wanting to get some sort of immortality by passing on the organisation to your kids. But then looking at your kids and thinking, 'Oh, they're just these privileged people who haven't had to struggle. Am I really going to just give it all to them?'

I don't believe in death. I just don't think all that love and all that energy can just disappear into nothing.

God in fact does not change: he is faithful to himself.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does not mean that immortality is theoretically or even technically impossible.

I like looking at a future where we're expanding our creativity and brightening our lives. I believe that eventually we'll get to a point where we'll be able to live indefinitely through our technology.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals.

I have not died as men may die, nor sinned as men have sinned, But I have reached a misty sky upon a granite wind.

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound—that he will never get over it.

The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow – Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

If he was, in fact, God, he knew there was no such thing as death. He knew that what we called death was but the eternal opening of the golden gates of everlasting joy; and it took no heroism to face a death that was eternal life.

the deathless breath of the city.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope

People perish. Books are immortal.

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.