Quotes About Immortality

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

In an interview when asked about becoming a fantasy creature] You know, it might be fun to be Sanguinarius Meyerii (better known as "sparklers"). They have all of the vampire superpowers and almost none of the weaknesses: no burning up in sunlight, no vulnerability to garlic, etc. As for my demise, I have no idea what you're talking about. Once I get this kind of power, I'm planning to live forever. It's the only way I'll catch up on my reading!

No one here gets out alive.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

Self is that which dies... Spirit is that which lives... forever.

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

Man, to Lewis, is an immortal subject; pains are his moral remedies, salutary disciplines, willing sacrifices, playing their part in a drama of interchange between God and him.

And if I die, then who Will write my poems to you?

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.

At this still hour the self-collected soul Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there Of high descent, and more than mortal rank; An embryo God; a spark of fire divine, Which must burn on for ages, when the sun (Fair transitory creature of a day!) Has clos'd his golden eye, and wrapt in shades Forgets his wonted journey thro' the east.

That when we live no more, We may live ever