The problem with living forever, of course, is you have to live forever before you know you’re immortal…or invincible. Even the gods, in this way, must always remain uncertain. Time trumps immortality just as uncertainty...

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

Creating is the closest thing to being immortal.

The ‘tragedy’ of the slow growth of immortalism pertains mostly to them, and perhaps to you – not so much to me or to us, the committed immortalists. We already have made our arrangements for...

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.

It’s amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard...

You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze.

If death is no longer a fear, we’re really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

(there is) no other means of escaping from one’s consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence – a disease which we must endeavor to cure...

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

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

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

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...

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’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And...

Home. That wonderful place I was lucky enough to revisit no matter how short a time finally realizing it’s not relegated to just one single place its wherever you make it.

The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.

We’re all trying to come to terms with our mortality. Well, except for me, because I plan to live forever through the miracle of cloning.

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

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

I jumped between them holding my hands up in front of me to stop the onslaught. We would all sit down and figure this out as rational adults. We’d been adults for a century at...

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

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief.”And you so intelligent!””Excuse me?” said...

Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Holly steps back. Being warned about a ghost and seeing him are not the same. ‘What did they do to you?’Some of the Anchorites laugh. Hugo looks back at his long-ago lover. ‘They’-he looks about...

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Random search for data on … off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on ‘Intellectual Immoralities’ was circulated by a well-known institution. ‘Intellectual Immorality No. 4’ read: ‘Generalizing beyond one’s data’. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether...

Nothing is forever. Except atoms.

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to pass more than a fortnight in the same place. I have...

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.

A book is the only immortality.

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,...

The greatest sin you could commit is immortality, because it means that you’ll eventually commit all else.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

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

He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.

My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf 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,...

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...

Darauf seid allein ihr Menschen so versessen. Keine andere Kreatur lebt in solcher Furcht vor ihrer eigenen Vergänglichkeit.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

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.

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.

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.