Quotes About Immortality

Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there's a doorway, if you can find it - and it leads to immortality.

Live as if you were eternal.

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

Share your knowledge and you become immortal.

Let's fly away and live forever

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

Life is eternal. You are immortal. You never do die. You simply change form.

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

If you make the effort to work through the ideas I'll be setting out in this book, then even if you do not end up agreeing with me that the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and the natural law conception of morality are rationally unavoidable, you will understand how reasonable people could be convinced of this.

Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane.

Edward George Bulwer Lytton

He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.

By 1998, members of the United States National Academy of Sciences, an elite elected group sponsored by the federal government, were approaching complete atheism. Only 10 percent testified to a belief in either God or immortality. Among them were a scant 2 percent of the biologists. In modern civilizations, there is no overwhelming importance in the general populace to belong to an organized religion. Witness

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Some for renown on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. To patch-work learned quotations are allied; Both strive to make our poverty our pride.

All men think all men are mortal but themselves.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote.