Quotes About Immortality

Treachery it was, the theft of immortality. A dark Prometheus stealing a luminescent fire. Laughter in the darkness. Laughter echoing in the catacomb. Echoing as if down the centuries.

We were in Paris. And we were going to live forever.

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

I was a human being once," said the younger ghost. "I was a blood drinker for centuries after that. And I am a ghost now. And my soul has been my soul in all three forms.

Maybe the old ones are right. I refer now to the true immortals—the blood drinkers who've survived the millennia—who say that none of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are.

It's always the young ones who end it. The ones for whom mortality holds magic. As we grow older it's eternity that is our boon.

I am the vampire Lestat.

Enjoy your life, fill your belly with wine and food, and accept death. The Gods kept immortality for themselves, death is the lot of man.

All over the lawn, the immortals had begun to wither and decompose, creating little pockets of chaos among the guests.

The Vampire Lestat here.

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I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning. Do you think the hereafter could be like that?

And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their intangibility promised to us wrongly... wrongly, an immortality. As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us. When every moment, every moment must be first known and then savored.

I am not time's fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape, nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong. I know what I do, and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer. Do with it what you will.

And I? What am I? Do I live? Or am I always walking in death? Forever in love with time?

We are a cruse of the shadows; we are a secret. We are eternal.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

My last sunrise,' said the vampire. 'That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise.

Those Who Must Be Kept are at peace, or in silence. More than that we may never know.

I want to be read. I want to be valued. That is perhaps the only shot at immortality a human being can have.

Scattered in the dark were the vampires.

This is the only sun that you will ever see again. But a millenium of nights will be yours to see as no mortal has ever seen it, to snatch from the distant stars as if you were Prometheus, an endless illumination by which to understand all things.

Don't be afraid, child, not even for a moment. You'll die now to live forever, as I take your blood and give it back to you. I won't let you slip away.

Evil is a point of view,' he whispered now. 'We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately He takes the richest and the poorest, and so shall we; for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves, dark angels not confined to the stinking limits of hell but wandering His earth and all its kingdoms.