Quotes About Immortality

The madmen seem to live on forever, don't they?

Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

At this rate, I'll live forever.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

We will all rise from the grave.

I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Wait a minute, even I've hearda him. He died savin' the entire universe. Choked on cum...

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die.

Cohen was on his knees taking a picture of a passing cloud, an unremarkable cirrus shaped as if it were sketched expressly for a meteorology textbook, its immortality assured only through the wild Polish luck of having passed the former concentration camp on the day of Cohen's visit.

Heavy use of a special hypoallergenic organic air freshener is encouraged at Post-Human Services, because the scent of immortality is complex.

The Precursors taught us that each life is a finite interval, with a beginning and an end. Any individual creature, although a miracle, is not that important in the overall scheme of things. What matters, the Precursors said, is continuity and renewal. In their view each of us is immortal, not because anything related to a specific individual lives forever, but because each life becomes a critical link, either culturally or genetically or both, in the neverending chain of life.

Hans: [Y]ou can't conceive what a great fellow I'm going to be. The seed of immortality has sprouted within me. Deronda: Only a fungoid growth, I daresay - a crowing disease in the lungs.

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.

Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.