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

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive… Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can’t...

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

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may...

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that’s left now is the end, which is...

You’re a kid. I didn’t know we taught kids manners anymore.

o gün akşamüstü son bir defa daha kırlarda dolaşmaya çıktığında yaşadığı tuhaf bir anı hatırladı: bir dere kıyısına gelmiş, çimenlere uzanmıştı. uzun süre orada öylece uzanmış, akarsuyun ta içinden geçerek bütün acıları ve bütün pislikleri;...

Why do you want to do this?” he asked curiously. “Why is this woman so important to you?”Saint-Germain blinked in surprise. “Have you ever loved anyone?” he asked.”Yes,” Tamnuz said cautiously, “I had a consort...

Hermes, we love you,” Hades said, “but you rarely do as you’re told, and you always do as you wish, and I haven’t the slightest idea what you’d do with an immortality fruit, but I’m...

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

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?’Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. ‘What? Who still believes nowadays?”It isn’t that simple. I don’t mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I’m no expert...

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

It was as hard to comprehend that your life would never end as it was to comprehend that it would.

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand–evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall...

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk...

I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is...

Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

People change spouses more often than they clean out closets. And every time they say, ‘This is the one. This is the person I’m going to spend eternity with.’ Then forty or fifty years go...

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...

I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and the future are one, occurring in a simultaneous time… Quite literally the future is now,...

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors — Saint Thomas...

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

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he’s died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies – and our species deserves the credit. I...

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

Love is nothing more than elevated levels of dopamine, nor-epinephrine, and other chemicals. But the way Uncle Antionio’s face lights up as they dance… I wonder what it would be like to feel that. To...

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

What you seek you shall never find. For when the Gods made man, They kept immortality to themselves.Fill your belly.Day and night make merry.Let Days be full of joy.Love the child who holds your hand.Let...

I’m an immortal. But I don’t want to be one anymore. Or rather, I don’t want to be an immortal stuck in a mortal world anymore. There is something greater out there for me, but...

Immortality, thou art a chimerical bridesmaid of life.

It’s amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,’ my mother explained shortly before she left me. ‘If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

I once met a traveler who told me he would live to see the end of time. He laid out all his vitamins before me and told me he slept seven hours every night, no...

Number one on my list of things to do before I die is become immortal. Obviously there is no number two on my list.

That which endures forever; it is released from nebulous name-giving.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men–great men– must build monuments and seek fame?

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only...

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he’d told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to...

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It’s so obvious at that point.

Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with mygeneration, and die my appointed...

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

Immortality” may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

In the twilight of a silent coast, under the beautiful stars, immortality visits you!

We all shine on…like the moon and the stars and the sun…we all shine on…come on and on and on…

But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist’s head. The orthodox believer likes to think that nothing is left. That, however, is because he...