Immortality Quotes - Page 6

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

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

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

I need to take a break from this life as a human for 45 minutes and go experience a little bit of immortality.

There's no immortality of the soul that you can infer from the Bible.

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

Tedium is the bane of immortality.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.

One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as perpetually in motion and changing, and, on the other hand, it has this god-like immortality to it: It seems like it won't die and is not subject to decay, and that everything can be unwound, unlike present-tense experience, where you can't archive the present moment, you can't go back and read it over again. That's the fundamental hallmark of the internet.

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.

I look through the grave into heaven.