Quotes About Immortality

So there was always work, but the one project by which Fontana is remembered, and which gave him a deserved immortality as an engineer, was moving and re-erecting the obelisk of Saint Peter's, that huge spike rising from what would become the heart of Christianity.

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

Donald Trump was building a pyramid in the Nevada desert to house his eventual remains. When done, it will be ten meters taller than the Great Pyramid at Giza.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Every book that has been printed is, after all, a grave for its author, isn't it?

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

Cattle die, and kinsmen die, And we will die ourselves; But fair fame never dies For the one who can achieve it.

Vivere nei cuori che lasciamo dietro di noi non è morire».

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rule their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons, Lord of Light.

You ever kill yourself, Corwin?" "Not recently. How'd you manage it?

The soul cannot be immortal if it is composed of many things unless the composition is most perfect. But the soul as we know it from our experience lacks that perfect harmony. In order to find the truth, one would have to recover by reasoning the original or true nature of the soul. This reasoning is not achieved in the Republic . That is to say, Socrates proves the immortality of the soul without having brought to light the nature of the soul.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

To-morrow, with the rise of the sun, this human face would be distorted with an inhuman grimace, her brain would be covered with thick blood, and her eyes would bulge from their sockets and look glassy,—but now she slept quietly and smiled in her great immortality.

Chloe said the first thing that popped into her head., I don't sleep with dead guys... Luca gave her an amused look. Good. I'm not dead. Never have been.... I'm immortal.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal

The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

I live my life based on 2 principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.