Immortality Quotes

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

[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.

‎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.

The physical world we live in is just the beginning.

Don't be decieved by your mortality, you're just a piece of debris, and the sophisticated one lies inside us which was either created or would be destroyed.

The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I have felt it in these shelves and in others.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of
life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they
continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It
is as though they were traveling abroad.

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

Nothing but truth is immortal.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

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

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

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

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

Nothing is forever. Except atoms.

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

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

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 by not dying.