Quotes About Immortality

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

I want to make music that stands the test of time.

We're not a product of time. We are a product of eternity.

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.

IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

He who makes time precious lives forever.

He listened gravely to the discussion of possible danger, but in truth, he paid little heed. Silvanoshei was young, and the young know they will live forever.

And then, one day, my love, you come out of eternity.

It's while it's being lived that life is immortal, while it's still alive. Immortality is not a matter of more or less time, its not really a question of immortality but of something else that remains unknown. It's as untrue to say it's without beginning or end as to say it begins and ends with the life of the spirit, since it partakes both of the spirit and of the pursuit of the void.

Il faudrait prévenir les gens de ces choses-là. Leur apprendre que l'immortalité est mortelle, qu'elle peut mourir, que c'est arrivé, que cela arrive encore.

Olhem as areias mortas dos desertos, o corpo morto das crianças: a imortalidade não passa por ali, ela para e contorna.

In the case of my younger brother it was an immortality without flaw, without commentary, smooth, pure, unique. My younger brother had nothing to cry in the wilderness, he had nothing to say, here or anywhere, nothing. He was uneducated, he never managed to learn anything. He couldn't speak, could scarcely read, scarcely write, sometimes you'd think he couldn't even suffer. He was someone who didn't understand and was afraid.

From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed, and in my better moments think so still, that it would be possible in this manner to participate in the existence of everyone; such sympathy would be one of the least revocable kinds of immortality.

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists. If death does take him, he is probably unaware of the fact; it amounts to no more for him than a shock or a spasm.

De cada arte practicado en su tiempo, extraigo un conocimiento que me resarce en parte de los placeres perdidos. Creí, y en mis buenos momentos lo creo todavía, que es posible compartir de esta suerte la existencia de todos, y que esa simpatía es una de las formas menos revocables de la inmortalidad.

Contam cu disperare pe eternitatea pitrei, pe fidelitatea bronzului în dorinÈ›a de a perpetua un corp perisabil, ori deja distrus, insistând totodat? ca marmura, uns? zilnic cu un amestec de ulei È™i acizi, s? prind? fineÈ›e È™i aproape moliciunea c?rnii tinere.

You are my blood mate," he says simply, finding my hand and squeezing it with his own. "I would die for you." Gah! A little warning before the touching would be nice. Mainly so I can resist the overwhelming urge to morph into a jiggly pile of Jell-O, thank you very much. "You'd … die… for me?"" I manage to choke out. I've got to lighten the mood here. "Technically aren't you already dead?