Quotes About Immortality

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids?

Life is short, but art lives forever.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.

Life is short and art is long.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever

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

But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours. The passion they have aroused lives after them, easy to transmute or to transfer, but well-nigh impossible to destroy.

He saw each of his daughters, part of himself. And he remembered what Judith had said: 'You will live on in our children's lives.' And he began to get glimmerings of a new immortality, made up of generations, an endless succession of other lives extending into the future.

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

For deeds do die, however nobly done,And thoughts of men do as themselves decay,But wise words taught in numbers for to run,Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

And so beneath the weight lay I And suffered death, but could not die.