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Quotes About Immortality

When you return home, you'll tell the story of how you sought it and failed, and that story will be told and told again. And when you're dead yourself, the story will go on being told, and in that telling you'll speak and act and be alive again.
~ John Crowley
We're made of stories now, brother. It's why we never die even if we do.
~ John Crowley
We're made of stories now brother. Its why we don't die even when we do.
~ John Crowley
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree,Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us,If lecherous goats, if serpents enviousCannot be damn'd; alas; why should I be?
~ John Donne
When I died last, and dear, I dieAs often as from thee I go.
~ John Donne
If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.
~ John Donne
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
~ John Donne
Death, thou shalt die.
~ John Donne
Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
~ John Donne
Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.
~ John Donne
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...
~ John Donne
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.
~ John Donne
O miserable condition of man, which is not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after falses riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge.
~ John Donne
For the first twenty years, since yesterday, I scarce believed thou could'st be gone away; For forty more, I fed on favors past, And forty' on hopes, that thou would'st they might last. Tears drowned one hundred, and sighs blew out two; A thousand, I did neither think, nor do, Or not divide, all being one thought of you; Or, in a thousand more, forget that too. Yet call not this, long life, but think that I Am, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?
~ John Donne
No man ever saw God and lived; and yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him I shall never die
~ John Donne
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.
~ D. M. Turner
But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
~ J. K. Rowling
Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.
~ Jessica Clark
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
~ William James
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
~ Marthe Bibesco
Narrow The heart that loves, the brain that contemplates, The life that wears, the spirit that creates One object, and one form, and builds thereby A sepulchre for its eternity.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
~ H. Rider Haggard, She
The blood is life... and it shall be mine!
~ Bram Stoker