In the end, the only thing that really matters is how we treated all living things.

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never...

Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn’t quite grasp.

Sometimes we have to go wrong to go right – Acheron

Hope is the last thing that dies.Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal.

You scoundrel, you have wronged me,” hissed the philosopher, “May you live forever!

Normally, the mortal would be emptied of his soul. His truest essence, which, if the bastard was lucky, would be released to be recycled by the cosmos. The ‘investor’ would then take hold, snuggling in...

Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to follow; to wait while...

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.

[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.

People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won’t find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!

–,all our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is...

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

If you want to be immortal, don’t ever think about retirement.

What if, you know—what if hanging out with Griffo Gerritszoon wasn’t always that great? What if he was weird and dreamy? What if the best part of him was the shapes he could make with...

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,...

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will...

All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.

The physical world we live in is just the beginning.

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.

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...

In order to create an idea… to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when...

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

Ellie, would you frolic in the land of forever with me?

I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and justify you, The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all...

Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn’t seem like such a great prospect.

Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding...

I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to...

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from...

makes” bad things happen. Death happens to everyone, not as a punishment, but because we are not meant to stay on this earth forever. As a result we are vulnerable rather than invincible, as is...

And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita . . .” What other immortality will anyone share?

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.

What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save intensity confers immortality. A man manifests himself more vividly, in proportion as he is strong and unified, effective...

Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.

True spiritual love is not a feeble imitation and anticipation of death, but a triumph over death, not a separation of the immortal form from the mortal, of the eternal from the temporal, but a...

Money does not guarantee immortality.

Where there is life, there is hope.

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to...

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

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

People often ask if one day mankind attains immortality, how he will be able to get rid of the eternal boredom problem? The answer is this: By embarking on eternal adventures!

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.

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...

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man’s knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, ‘The...

Not books.

There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone … Mind cannot arise alone without body, or apart from sinews and blood … You must admit, therefore, that when then body has perished, there is...

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion’s curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,Their names without a record are forgot,Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th’ dustNor...

Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality.

I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.