Quotes About Immortality

If heaven was to be this world purged of disaster and nuisance, if immortality was to be this life held in poise and arrest, and if this world purged and this life unconsuming could be thought of as world and life restored to their proper natures, it is no wonder that five serene, eventless years lulled my grandmother into forgetting what she should never have forgotten.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

what it's all for. We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop. They say in the next twenty years we're going to merge with computer chips to cure aging and become immortal. Who wants an eternity of being a machine?

These bodies are perishable, but the Dweller in these bodies is eternal. —BHAGAVAD-GITA

Nature is the first and last revelation because it is the 'scripture' of the Eternal. The trace of His hand is found in every rippling field of grass or fluttering leaf or silent flower; to read them is to help recover our roots of immortality.

Numai moartea nu cere daruri dintre zei.

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

But we must not follow those who advise us…being mortal, [to think] of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.

Death is evil. So the gods decided. Otherwise they would die.

all that he had ever been, at every moment of his life, was being transferred to safer keeping. Even as one David Bowman ceased to exist, another became immortal.

If we are unable to download, remember us.

Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it's language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I've come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality.

Flaevynn wants only to take Treoir so she can bathe in the pool of immortality that runs beneath the castle." – Cathbad "Can she swim? Maybe she'll drown before the immortality kicks in." – Kizira

Yes, Berel-Ayzik, what you say is all very well and good. But just tell us one more thing. Do they die in America like they do here? Or do they live forever?

we shall not fall out of this world. We are in it once and for all.')]

Our unconscious therefore does not believe in its own death; it acts as though it were immortal.

Nabokov's syllogism. Other men die; but I am not another; therefore I'll not die.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

YaÅŸamaya s?k? s?k? sar?lm??san?z sizce ister gökyüzünde ister yeryüzünde olsun, ölümsüzlük ölümün ac?s?n? size unutturamaz, sizi avutamaz.

Religion could do no more for my mother than the hope of posthumous success could do for me. Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in the prolongation of life, and it robs death of its purpose.

Authors have the power to bore people long after we are dead. –

You really are a soul caged in a human body. The body decays but the soul is everlasting. Leave a legacy you can be proud of. Make a difference in this world now while you still can. Even after you have left your soul shall remain. You will still know.