Quotes About Immortality

Someday Neruda and Octavio Paz will shake hands. Sooner or later Paz will make room on Olympus for Neruda. But we will always be on the outside.

Then the gods realized they must create substitutes for themselves: men. But how? For them to be truly alive, a god must die.

No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man's life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.

Immortality is for the gods. Frankly, I don't know how they stand it.

huigan—causes us to turn inward and reflect as the liquor coats our tongues, shimmers down our throats, and then rises again as fragrance. The Daoists see tea as a way to regulate internal alchemy, be in harmony with the natural world, and serve as an ingredient in the elixir of immortality. Together, these three

When they die, they keep loving. If love ends when a person dies, that is not real love.

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

How fortunate that science hasn't cracked human immortality. It's a great blessing that we can outlive old wars. And old warriors.

T)he cadet was too young to believe in death after life.

Antes de morir espero hacer algo importante, algo heroico o maravilloso, que me permita seguir viva en el recuerdo. No sé qué es, pero no pararé hasta descubrirlo y, algún día, os asombraré a todas.

A heavy weight fell on Jo's heart as she saw her sister's face. It was no paler and but littler thinner than in the autumn, yet there was a strange, transparent look about it, as if the mortal was being slowly refined away, and the immortal shining through the frail flesh with an indescribably pathetic beauty.

I want to do something splendid … Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead … I think I shall write books.

I want to do something splendid... Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead... I think I shall write books.

Ni siquiera la pirámide más monumental es suficiente para defendernos de la muerte.

Qué puede haber más tópico y ramplón que ese afán de ser y no morir? No ha debido de existir ni un solo ser humano, desde el principio de los tiempos, que no haya experimentado alguna vez ese espejismo de hermosura, esa necesidad de permanencia. Hasta los idiotas tienen inquietudes trascendentes y aspiran alguna vez a la eternidad. La metafísica es la más común de las bajas pasiones.

Not though you die to-night, O Sweet, and wail, A spectre at my door, Shall mortal Fear make Love immortal fail -- I shall but love you more, Who, from Death's House returning, give me still One moment's comfort in my matchless ill.

I've always though of writing as the opposite of suicide, she said. That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it. Like Scheherazade? Yes, she said. Spinning tales to forestall her execution...

I've always thought of writing as the opposite of suicide,' she said. 'That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it.

Socrates proved the immortality of the soul from the fact that the sickness of the soul (sin) does not consume it as sickness of the body consumes the body. So also we can demonstrate the eternal in man from the fact that despair cannot consume his self, that this precisely is the torment of contradiction in despair. If there were nothing eternal in a man, he could not despair; but if despair could consume his self, there would still be no despair.

Mine': what does this word mean? Not what belongs to me, but what I belong to, what contains my whole being, which is mine only so far as I belong to it. My God is not the God that belongs to me, but the God to whom I belong; and so, too, when I say my native land, my home, my calling, my longing, my hope. If there had been no immortality before, this thought that I am yours would be a breach of the normal course of nature." —Johannes the Seducer, from_Either/Or_

immortality is a chancy matter, subject to the caprice of the unborn. Not

Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.

he made his story into an immortal one, so far as any story is. — But, Dr Freud, stories are all we humans have to make us immortal. 18 —

Even death is going to die!