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Quotes About Immortality

Sebastien wondered if David knew he hadn't touched another of his kind since they parted company, more than a century ago.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In the course of a long unlife, borders might cross as often as one crossed borders.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She thought of him shedding names and lives and lovers across the centuries, and wondered how he bore it. And then he turned and caught her eye and smiled, and thought that rather, perhaps the shedding was how he bore it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
sudden throb of triumph in Marianne's soul; for this, in spite of all, had been a man who had left the world the richer for his passing through it, and even if immortality were an empty dream, that were sufficient justification for the fact of life. He had lived for the poor and the outcast, he had served them up to the moment of his death, and she in whatever ways she could find would serve them too.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Love, and nothing else, was eternal. "Love is the Lord by whom we escape death.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
It's only the immortal thing that a man can be judged on, that bit of himself that he makes as he does the best he can with what fate handed out to him.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
He could contemplate, in a sentimental way, the idea of his wife, children and grandchildren arranged, well-dressed and weeping decorously, around his grave. His lovers, she ten years his junior and a handsome woman, and the lovely immortal, he imagined them disentangling their feet from his ribcage and walking on. It
~ Elizabeth Knox
The God that Socrates presented to his disciples stood above and beyond the familiar myths and rituals. Socrates's God shares the same transcendent immortality as the soul and lies beyond all material space and time. He dwells naturally in the same afterlife as the Forms:
~ Arthur Herman
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
~ Arthur Honegger
Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea
~ Arthur Rimbaud
It has been found again. What? – Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Elle est retrouvée Quoi ? – L'Eternité. C'est la mer allée Avec le soleil.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
L'Eternité — c'est la mer allée avec le soleil.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l'Éternité. C'est la mer mêlée Au soleil.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Which in His times He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords: Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen" (1Ti 6:15-16). Such
~ Arthur W. Pink
Si me dieran la inmortalidad absoluta a cambio de un día de Purgatorio, rechazaría el trato. Qué pereza, luego, todo el tiempo tocando el arpa en una nube, vestido con un ridículo camisón blanco... Lo mejor es dejar de existir.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Within unborn mind there is supreme immortality. The characteristics of being born and dying are liberated of themselves. How happy I am in the firm vision of the highest view!
~ Arya Maitreya
The confidence of youth, which knows that it can never die, lifted her into a bright sphere.
~ Askold Melnyczuk
I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Fame is a food that dead men eat—I have no stomach for such meat.
~ Austin Dobson
Dievai visas g?rybes parduoda tikr?ja kaina, yra pasak?s vienas senov?s poetas. Jis b?t? gal?j?s pridurti, kad pa?ias ver?iausias jie parduoda pigiausiai. Viskas, kas mums tikrai naudinga - nebrangu; tik už tai, be ko galima apsieiti, mokam didelius pinigus. Kas gražu - išvis neparduodama; visa tai nemirtingieji dievai mums duoda veltui.
~ Axel Munthe
It is odd that the Bible says, 'God created man,' whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, 'The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,' whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.
~ Bela Bartok
When Baba Faiz dies, faizi gets born. While faizi dies, Baba Faiz gets reborn. However, I never die.
~ Baba Faiz