The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.
~ Carl Sagan
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna
~ Jorge Luis Borges
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
~ Alberto Manguel
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.
~ John Milton
Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they may not only immortalize you, but also grant you superpowers.
~ Charbel Tadros
Where there is life, there is hope.
~ Alyson Noel
All love is immortal.
~ Shannon A. Thompson
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
~ Emily Dickinson
A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if the paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his presence. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.
~ Timothy Zahn
Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.
You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.
Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.
Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.
The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.
~ Michelle Franklin
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.
~ Russell Brand
Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perfect health and the first flush of ripened beauty, yet it bore stamped upon it a seal of unutterable experience, and of deep acquaintance with grief and passion. Not even the slow smile that crept about the dimples of her mouth could hide the shadow of sin and sorrow. It shone even in the light of those glorious eyes, it was present in the air of majesty, and it seemed to say: 'Behold me, lovely as no woman was or is, undying and half-divine; memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.
~ H. Rider Haggard
Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?
~ Julia Kristeva
Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
The sun had now set the sky ablaze with glorious hues of orange. She squinted to focus in the brilliance and thoughts of distant fire breathing dragons lit up her imagination once again.
~ Kim Cormack
Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
~ Plato
Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality—
Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.
~ Criss Jami
It's all a series of serendipities with no beginnings and no ends. Such infinitesimal possibilities Through which love transcends.
~ Ana Claudia Antunes
Death. I wish the word could be removed from the vocabulary and from the dictionary. It simply does not exist, except in the human mind that was taught that it does exist. People think they are a body and they come to believe that when the body dies, everything they are will die too. It’s not true. The soul lives on. The soul of consciousness exists not only in the body but outside of the body too. We are all souls that cannot be contained or limited by time or space or the physical body. For souls there is no death.
~ Kate Mcgahan
Immortality: It is impossible to be conscious of being unconscious.It is not possible to be aware of being unconscious from your own perspective. You cannot be aware of not being aware. You can be less aware/conscious, such as when you are asleep, but not completely unconscious (dead), because time would stand still for you. A billion years could pass, and you would not know it.How do you know you are dead? It is not possible to be aware of any gaps in life; it is continuous and never-ending from your own point of view.Death and birth are a continuous event from your own perspective.You will die physically, but you will be born into a new physical body. Being born happens, or you would not be here now. You were born into this life. It is what we know happens. There is no evidence anything else happens. True or false?
~ Michael Smith
if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great nonsense of mortality, but if he could see the divine Beauty itself in its one form? Do you think it would be a poor life for a human being to look there and to behold it by that which he ought, and to be with it? Or haven't you remembered that in that life alone, when he looks at Beauty in the only way what Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth no to images of virtue but to true virtue. The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given birth to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as a spirit, exists beyond death; and therefore only he could do it righteously. For the physical being kills a man and hatefully sends him away, whereas God, the spiritual being, kills a man and lovingly draws him nigh.
When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never. dies.
~ Solange Nicole
The best thing about Art is that the people who create it live forever.
~ Jonathan Heatt
Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.
~ Kamand Kojouri
I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?
~ Peter Shaffer
One author said I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants
Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?
~ Orhan Pamuk
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
~ Kohta Hirano
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.
~ N.k. Jemisin
Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.
~ Salley Vickers
Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.
~ Amit Ray
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 to learn.
~ Tom Robbins
