Quotes About Immortality

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

No one will remember you.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one ise going to live forever and ever and ever

shall get well! I shall get well!" he cried out. "Mary! Dickon! I shall get well! And I shall live forever and ever and ever!

I Shall Live Forever—and Ever—and Ever! –

Immortality, she'd always thought, is how you live on in the memories of those left.

Even the seemingly immortal gods survive only as long as they are required by mortal men.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

Sometime I must recount for you the legend of the phoenix

So you're not a child," Jessica said. "I'm millions of years old. That requires adjustments which humans have never before been called upon to make.

In a changing universe, only a changing species can hope to be immortal and then only if its eggs are nurtured in widely scattered environments. This predicts a wealth of unique individuals. — Insights (a glimpse of early Human philosophy), BuSab Text

profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.

Aceia care p?streaz? capacitatea de a aduna frumuseÅ£ea nu vor îmb?trâni niciodat?

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle.

I believe Dad will be respected in 300 years, like Beethoven. As will Elvis, as will the Carter Family, as will Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

I'm an immortal, hundred-year-old vampire.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

Whoever you are! motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you. Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid or liquid, You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky, For none more than you are the present and the past, For none more than you is immortality. —WALT WHITMAN, "A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH

The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.