Quotes About Immortality

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

If at all I make films till I die, I want to make ones that last.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, 'I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist.'

Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.'

Things that are truly great will be timeless.

Money, titles, belts - you're not going to take with you when you die. History stays forever. That's why I decided to go for history.

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.

It's always so cool to think you are looking at today is something other people have been looking at for centuries. It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

Oh, I've been around since the Greeks. Anyway, part of being a god is doing things to destroy yourself. It's like being a human. We're all trapped in the same economy.

since all my letters are equally bare of personal information. The buildings I try to describe will last longer than we will, so it is only fitting that they should have the greater space.

Time passes and human greed outlasts even the eternal.

Who will speak my name so I might taste eternity if no one knows i ever drew breath?

Children connect you to eternity," she wrote us. "They're like notes to be opened after we die.

There is a deeper life than the life we see and hear with the open ear and the open eye and this is the life important and the life everlasting.

It is the way of life. We are born in others' pain; we perish in our own, and between beginning and end stands the physician. We help them into the world, we watch beside their sickbeds, we make their exits into immortality as painless as possible - at the last we stay to comfort those who remain. These are the obligations of our trade.

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.