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.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on...

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

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.

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

When the silence comes and the echoes of former life fades, what will have mattered will be, one made the world a bit better ‘fore their de-berthing. Writing, needs none, but the initial push of...

Nothing but truth is immortal.

For a life where diamonds really are forever

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

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

Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one’s conscience in the silence...

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.

How disorienting and isolating immortality must be, and how strong he must be to weather it.

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,’...

Immortality goes through dead before all.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is...

We must not listen to those who advise us ‘being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts’ but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve...

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe he is dead.

Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark; leave a positive legacy!

humanity” a small price for the power they now wielded; power that would sustain them far beyond the lives of mere humans and perhaps, in time, even grant them immortality.

When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.

A body can’t live without a heart. And I can’t live without you.

≫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...

Jaden felt their boredom, their tired eternity. Beyond that, she felt their dying essence. They were immortal—all-powerful beings—and yet they were powerless against the onslaught of ever-changing time. They were lost in a modern world,...

Our heads will happen cold when this is found.

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

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.

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.

Well, eventually yes. Immortality would be dreadfully mundane.

It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.

The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness”.

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...

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn’t about to...

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...

From my spirit’s gray defeat, From my pulse’s flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault’s slavery, If I can sing, I still am free.For...

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn’t even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.