Quotes About Immortality

Susanna's music touched the bawdy stringsOf those white elders; but, escaping,Left only Death's ironic scraping.Now, in its immortality, it playsOn the clear viol of her memory,And makes a constant sacrament of praise.

part together. This struck me as important. But 2 percent is always alive. From a certain microbiological standpoint, trees are immortal. I think history is like this. We cannot capture much more than the trees do of what is living about history. The rest is solid cortex. It stands and is of use to the living part.

Der Ruhm mag schwinden, aber die Vergessenheit währt ewig.

No one who writes a good book is really dead.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

We all live as if we are going to live forever. When you know you won't, life looks different.

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

The future is immortal.

Epicurus said something similar when he wrote, "Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Y, por encima de todo, leemos contra la muerte

Et par dessus tout nous lisons contre la mort

But now, in the era of lost inhibition, it seemed no detail of life was too mundane or humiliating to share. In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity. Internet followers were more treasured than flesh-and-blood friends, for they held the illusive promise of celebrity, even immortality. Were Descartes alive today, he might have written: I tweet, therefore I am.

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. ~

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

But when thou shalt be in the sweet world, I pray thee bring me to men's memory.

These have not the hope to die.

No one ever understands what happened with Adam and Eve. That story isn't about sex. It's about death. The forbidden desire isn't love or lust—you can get that stuff anytime down at the public bath, even on earth. The forbidden desire is immortality.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Sex is a kind of alchemy. It's the one thing other than death that if used properly can change everything, like that first night with Madison, it's all in my head like a beautiful dream. I remember her skin. Its texture made me believe I'd never die.

Mrtvi znaju tajnu besmrtnosti, ali Å¡ute.

Remembering is the only way to defeat the death.