Immortality Quotes

Mitch Albom

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.. Mitch Albom
Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

G.K. Chesterton

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

James Joyce

‎I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Doug Dillon

The physical world we live in is just the beginning.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.

Robin Sloan

The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.

Antonio Porchia

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Marcel Proust

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of
life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they
continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It
is as though they were traveling abroad.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Nothing but truth is immortal.

Marsilio Ficino

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Micheline Jean Louis

Oh love let me embrace your path, to be remembered in kindness so I may remain immortal

Glen Duncan

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

Michael LaRocca

Schopenhauer wrote that to desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. He was correct.

J.K. Rowling

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Richard Rodriguez

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

Dannika Dark

Nothing is forever. Except atoms.

Thomas Campbell

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Terry Pratchett

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Terry Pratchett

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Jennifer Donnelly

I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

Alfred Tennyson

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,
And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d
To dwell in presence of immortal youth,
Immortal age beside immortal youth,
And all I was, in ashes.
- Tithonus

Emily Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

Margaret Atwood

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

Gregory Maguire

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Rae Hachton

I was made to rule the darkness.

Saint Vardapet Eghishē

Մահ ոչ իմացեալ՝ մահ է, մահ իմացեալ՝ անմահութիւն է:
Death, unanticipated, is death; death, anticipated, is immortality.

Doug Dillon

Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.

Werner Von Braun

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Nalini Singh

Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?

Elizabeth Marx

Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.

Lionel Johnson

While death and darkness girdle me
I grope for immortality.

George Santayana

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

George MacDonald

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

Thomm Quackenbush

Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever.

Christopher Hitchens

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

John Patrick Lowrie

The only way to find out if you're immortal is to make it to the end of time and look around to see if you're still alive. Until you've done that, all you know is that you haven't died yet.

H. Rider Haggard

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

H. Rider Haggard

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Thomas Malory

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.

Vera Nazarian

Hope is the last thing that dies.

Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.

Dalai Lama XIV

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

H.P. Lovecraft

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism - religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

Amy Leigh Mercree

Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.

John Muir

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

Alberto Manguel

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

John Milton

Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Tiffany Thompson

All souls can earn IMMORTALITY.
The Creators have IMMORTALITY.
The Creators are the' ONLY' ONES'
To award IMMORTALITY...

FROM MY BOOK: War between Souls over First Universe Justice Awaits

Marcel Proust

No doubt my books too, like my mortal being, would eventually die, one day. But one has to resign oneself to dying. One accepts the thought that in ten years oneself, in a hundred years one's books, will not exist. Eternal duration is no more promised to books than it is to men.

Kenneth Bøgh Andersen

≫Når du kaster den terning,≪ Sagde Filip, ≫hvad sker der så helt nøjagtig?≪
≫Et stort spørgsmål,≪ Sagde Døden og så ham dybt i øjnene, ≫Mon sindet kan klare svaret?≪
≫Prøv≪
≫Når terningen kastes, så begynder sandet at løbe ≪

Kenneth Bøgh Andersen

≫Koma. I resten af…≪ Mortimer kastede et hurtigt blik på timeglasset, ≫hans liv. Hvilket vil være evigt, nu da terningen er væk. Død, men ikke død. Levende, men ikke levende. Kan du se, hvor skræmmende det er?≪

Kenneth Bøgh Andersen

≫Værre?≪ Filip rystede på hovedet. ≫Hvad er værre end døden?≪
≫Jeg troede, du havde hørt efter, Filip. Der findes masser af ting, der er værre end døden.≪ En fejende armbevægelse præsenterede de mange timeglas, hvor sandet løb både op og ned. ≫Evigt liv, blandt andet.≪

Michelle Franklin

The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living beyond those whom he would have given much to keep.

Melissa Thayer

We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever; to capture moments; to capture Time itself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The leaves that remain are only a very small part of the tea. The tea that goes into me is a much bigger part of the tea. It is the richest part.
We are the same; our essence has gone into our children, our friends, and the entire universe. We have to find ourselves in those directions and not in the spent tea leaves.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.

Nigel Holloway

Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.’

Heath nodded slowly. ‘But usually only once, Hamish. Usually only once.

Nigel Holloway

McAllister looked up into her face, his eyes blazing with anger. At last, his composure cracked.

‘That’s right,’ he shouted back. ‘My word against – whose? Yours? You were dead, remember? No, of course you don’t remember. You were dead!

Russell Brand

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,
Eternal Wisdom can never die ...

Charles Bukowski

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

Roman Payne

You are like a god, like an immortal one,' she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body pressed to mine, our sweat golden and glistening in the candlelight. 'Oh, my love,' I whispered back to her, 'I am more mortal than all. It seems that a part of me dies every night that I lie with you.

Marty Rubin

Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.

Charles Lyell

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.

Rae Hachton

There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.

Melika Dannese Lux

Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools,” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.

Donna Tartt

. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

Michelle Carbotte

You can’t find God through astronomy; you can’t find immortality through biology. The Kingdom of Heaven can’t be attained through philosophy. There is only one way that leads to these things and that way is through the spirit.

Vironika Tugaleva

I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.

Vironika Tugaleva

Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.

Amos Bronson Alcott

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

Problems are mortal. Solutions live forever.

Peter Shaffer

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

W.P. Kinsella

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

Tom Robbins

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.

Kohta Hirano

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

N.K. Jemisin

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

Tennessee Williams

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!-Which it never can be....

Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

Jacob M. Appel

Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.

Alyson Noel

Where there is life, there is hope.

Patricia Briggs

A man's immortality can be found in his children.

Irvin D. Yalom

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

Sarah J. Maas

Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. "You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and too bored with immortality, to be checked by anything else.

Erin Fall Haskell

Immortality is the new twenty!

Alyson Noel

Forgiveness is healing - everything is energy - thoughts create - we are all connected - what you resist persists - true love never dies - the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality -

N.T. Wright

If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.

Thomm Quackenbush

Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.

Pearl S. Buck

Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless.
She knew she was immortal.

Plato

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

Abigail Barnette

Money does not guarantee immortality.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Desire to give and not always receive.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Drown those degrading thoughts.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.

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