Quotes About Immortality

when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand:

I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy. It was very different, when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

MATT HARDY WILL NOT DIE

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

He thought that he had believed it was a simple sequence, the past and the present, and if there was loss in the past one was compensated by pain in the present, and pain gave it a form of immortality—but he had not known that one could destroy like this, kill retroactively—so that to her it had never existed.

One can't even find the concept of the "immortal soul" in the Bible. It was grafted onto Christian teachings from the pagan Greeks long after the Bible was written.2

Combine mind plus body with freshly updated data, some of it perhaps collected on your self-monitoring devices, and act quickly to generate fresh instructions to forestall any looming problems. This, I imagine, is how Silicon Valley "immortalists" spend their time—scanning all the health-related information and instantly applying it—which may seem a small price to pay for eternal life.

no such thing as death in her lexicon, and that as long as I lived and you lived she would live, too, for we would carry the memory of her in our hearts for ever.

That I was apparently into body building at all at this stage in my life probably meant affairs with young women, for whom a youthful physique might ameliorate the unavoidable emotional consequences of sleeping with an older man in what at root would be little more than an exchange of sex and the illusion of immortality for Ferragamo handbags and the other implicit currencies of such arrangements. All of which the yakuza would understand, and even respect.

of eternity.

Immortality is a meaningless word unless invulnerability goes with it.

Men cannot come any closer to immortality without going insane.

Immortality is only for the gods," he whispered. "I wonder how they can stand it.

humans sometimes could be elevated to the ranks of those gods.

humans are made up of two competing entities, the mortal body and the immortal soul

It proves little, except that perhaps in America even a pig can aspire to immortality.

Only a few deities associated with the Olympian cult apparently offered a satisfying personal relationship with their worshipers. Two of the most accessible figures were Asclepius and Dionysus, both of whom were born mortal and underwent suffering and death before achieving immortality, experiences that allowed them to bridge the gulf between humanity and divinity.

People living deeply," wrote poet and diarist Anaïs Nin, "have no fear of death.

With this in mind, it is not inconceivable to say that there are people alive today who will live long enough to see their selves stored in silicon and thus, by extension, see themselves live forever.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

For love is as strong as death.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.