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.

You may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that for a moment, never dying? Never fading? Existing, just as you are, for all time?

Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor and as Zhirem’s cup was sure,...

Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any wayTo vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinanceWhere all should pause, as is most meet for...

The love of every single one of my lives.

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn’t it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

I plan on putting off death my whole life.

When you can’t die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

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

≫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...

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

… millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

Look, there is Vyvyan Ayrs!”How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn’t, the wolves...

Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.

A figure 8 doesn’t figure into my plans to live to infinity.

A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life

You’re not Dostoevsky,’ said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,’ he replied. ‘Dostoevsky’s dead,’ said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. ‘I protest!’ Behemoth exclaimed hotly. ‘Dostoevsky...

O I will accompany the windUntil the chainOf my white bonesDrifts like fine sandAnd I become compassing.I become the wind.- Song of the Wind

Most of [the alchemists] were poor; many all but unknown in their own time, many died and saw no fruit of their labours… Of some the very names are forgotten. But though their names be...

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;...

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

If the boy who drawslets you look over his shoulder.If the poetsmilesand shows you her words.If the girl who sings for the shower only,hums a songin front of you.Know that you’re no longer a personbut...

Part of the apparently conventional nature of our relationships is the threat of separation and death. This body dies. That body dies. We can rejuvenate, feel better, live longer, but, even so, in this world...

Escape is very difficult to negotiate, underwater.

If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the nobility of our memory of them. With every friend I love who has been taken into the...

They can only kill us once.

‎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.

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way...

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...

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

‎And when this intoxication has worn away… when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be...

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted...

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.

Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.

He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.

Que la vida es inmortal mientras se vive, mientras se está con vida. Que la inmortalidad no es una cuestión de más o menos tiempo, que no es una cuestión de inmortalidad, que es una...

They all seem infected with a vivaciousness that isn’t common in our compound, and there are more smiles on their faces than I’ve ever seen at once. And yet as I watch them, I feel...

≫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...

Might there come a timeWhen we stand over a graveAnd mourn ourselves?Mourn the past, a previous life?Shall we weep for the passing of time?Shall we grieve for unfulfilled dreams?In my naivety; in my beliefIn immortal...

The day will comeWhen my body no longer existsBut in the lines of this poemI will never let you be aloneThe day will comeWhen my voice is no longer heardBut within the words of this...

Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for some time. Most diseases are curable, and in event of an incurable ailment or injury, a new...

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that...

My lucky rabbit’s foot has kept me alive all these years. Hopefully it will do so indefinitely. Immortality through sheer luck.