Quotes About Immortality

The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.

Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

Je ne veux pas et Je ne peux pas concevoir un être qui survivrait à la mort de son corps.

Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common.

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

She must, above all things, be just, not truckling to the strong and warring on or plundering the weak; she must act on the square with all nations, and the feeblest tribes; always keeping her faith, honest in her legislation, upright in all her dealings. Whenever such a Republic exists, it will be immortal: for rashness, injustice, intemperance and luxury in prosperity, and despair and disorder in adversity, are the causes of the decay and dilapidation of nations.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

Alexandria and its scholars […] never mistook the true nature of the past; they knew it to be the source of an ever-shifting present in which new readers engaged with old books which became new in the reading process. Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Books are our best possessions in life, they are our immortality.

Reading is reclaiming the right to... human immortality, because the memory of writing is all-encompassing and limitless.

There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.

And as on Tullia's tomb one lamp burned clear, Unchanged for fifteen hundred year...' He repeated the lines to himself, and was desolated to think of all the murdered past.

Suonavamo per farli ballare, perché se balli non puoi morire, e ti senti Dio. E suonavamo il ragtime, perché è la musica su cui Dio balla, quando nessuno lo vede.

The cell doesn't grow old. It becomes immortal. Keeps dividing. Doesn't Die. So where we see the aging process as natural, it's actually a fault in our genes.

Because laughs never die away entirely," said Jamie. "At least, if you believe in Marconi.

Non omnis moriar, said Horace's Odes—I shall not wholly die. Yes, and he was right. As long as people remembered, then death was not complete. Only if there were nobody at all left to remember would death be complete.

Within my song, safe from the worm, my spirit will survive

It is only the dead who do not return.

The shadows of leaves are addressed to immortality

A televangelist or president blessing troops in the name of God somehow is reminiscent of a neo-Darwinist laying the blame for genocides on irrational religion, smugly sure of being inured from the same while claiming a kind of amoral immortality for the gene, that veritable Platonic abstraction, that chemical instantiation of eternal life going on indefinitely as the real world of life, which it produces, dies around it.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.