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Quotes About Immortality

Gustavo Solivellas dice: No creo en la muerte porque uno no está presente para saber que, en efecto, ha ocurrido (Andy Warhol)
~ Andy Warhol
People are sleeping in pyramid-shaped spaces a lot now because they think it will keep them young and vital and stop the aging process. I'm not worried about that because I have my wings. However, my ideal
~ Andy Warhol
I killed her once and died for her many times
~ Ann Brashares
How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he shall never die; that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on for ever. Those that lie here stretched before us, the wise and the powerful of ancient times, warn us to remember the shortness of our present state; they were, perhaps, snatched away while they were busy, like us, in the choice of life.
~ Samuel Johnson
Quizá cada gato o cada perro se crea inmortal, porque no ha muerto. ¿Me sigue usted? Pero nosotros sabemos que moriremos y vivimos obsesionados con combatir la muerte, lo cual hace que ella tenga una presencia desmedida, a menudo aplastante, en nuestra vida. El ser humano tiene alma en la justa medida en que es consciente de su propia muerte.
~ Santiago Roncagliolo
someone will remember us I say even in another time
~ Sappho
That's immortality my darlings Spencer said.
~ Sara Shepard
Do you believe in vampires? Not the sparkly variety.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
What is it about immortality? With the right sword and shield, we think we can fend off anger, fear, and hatred. If our legs are strong enough, we think we can outrun age, loss, and death.
~ Sarah Kay
The good die young, but I have been spared to build myself up so that I may end my life as good as gold. The senior dead will be proud of me.... I will join the Y.M.C.A. of the immortals. Only, in this very hour, I may be missing eternity.
~ Saul Bellow
Exigir la inmortalidad del individuo es querer perpetuar un error hasta el infinito
~ Schopenhauer
Time is the only constant. For the living it never stops... For the dead it doesn't matter... And for the undead? For the undead, time is a joke to be laughed at!
~ Scott Snyder
THALES. Maybe so. Still, I'll defend a life Lived worthily in its brief time on earth. PROTEUS. A life like yours, yes—it persists Well past the bounds of mortal days. Among the crowd of pale and drifting ghosts 8620 I've noticed you these many centuries.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is the childhood of our immortality
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
~ John Barrymore, last words
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody can reach in this life to feeling immortal.
~ John Berger
Anybody who passes more than a day in eternity is as old as God could ever be.
~ John Berger
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
~ John Berger
You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.
~ John Brunner
The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.
~ John Calvin
We all know that books burn—yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. . . . In this war, we know, books are weapons. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
~ John Connolly
We all know that books burn – yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. … In this war, we know, books are weapons. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
~ John Connolly
We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).
~ John Connolly
The Chinese, you know, believe that deep within each of us, no larger than the ball of your thumb, is the garden of the immortals, the great valley where we are all king forever.
~ John Crowley