Immortality Quotes

‎And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?

~ Seth Grahame-Smith

After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

~ Simon R. Green

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.

~ Albert Camus

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal...

~ Bertrand Russell

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

~ Shan Sa

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

~ Tanith Lee

It's while it's being lived that life is immortal, while it's still alive. Immortality is not a matter of more or less time, its not really a question of immortality but of something else that remains unknown. It's as untrue to say it's without beginning or end as to say it begins and ends with the life of the spirit, since it partakes both of the spirit and of the pursuit of the void.

~ Marguerite Duras

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 drop by drop the curse of the longcenturies falls upon our imperishable being, like water slow drippingon a diamond that it cannot wear, till they be born anew forgetful ofus, and again sink from our helpless arms into the void unknowable.

~ H. Rider Haggard

Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?

~ Michael Scott

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

~ Herb Caen

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.

~ Audrey Auden

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

~ Colin Thompson

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

~ Gary Shteyngart

You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze.

~ Clare Morgan

The only true immortality lies in one's chi

~ Johannes Brahms

Immortality goes through dead before all.

~ Sorin Cerin

They can only kill us once.

~ Immaculée Ilibagiza

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

~ John Ashbery

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

Who needs immortal strength when you've got weapons of mass destruction?

~ J.a. Saare

How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard to achieve after all. Why then does he persist in inscribing marks on paper, in the faint hope that people not yet born will take the trouble to decipher them?

~ J.m. Coetzee

A book is the only immortality.

~ Rufus Choate

When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.

~ Gregory Maguire

I jumped between them holding my hands up in front of me to stop the onslaught. We would all sit down and figure this out as rational adults. We’d been adults for a century at least, and it should not be a problem. It appeared to be a problem.

~ Jessica Fortunato

I’m an immortal. But I don’t want to be one anymore. Or rather, I don’t want to be an immortal stuck in a mortal world anymore. There is something greater out there for me, but in order to get it I need someone to put an end to my life in this world.

~ Ramsey Isler

The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

~ P.d. James

Immortality entails not invincibility.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

He retrieved the words from somewhere long forgotten. They floated through the foggy recesses of his mind, plucked from the dark and released into the air like a dove.

~ R. W. Patterson

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.

~ W.s. Merwin

The efficacy of TA-65 is incremental. It does seem to stop telomere shortening and minutely lengthen telomeres, but not in the profound way that future drugs will. One natural compound that may prove more powerful and more affordable may be available by the time this book is published. You can find updates on it (not allowed to give a link) Still, TA-65 us currently being used by the authors of this book, and Dr. Woynarowski is one of the physicians who is licensed to distribute it.

~ Michael Fossel

Believe me, there’s nothing worse than being both immortal and intelligent. Imagine the boredom! Plus you start to ask questions, and the worst thing about questions is that sometimes, they have answers.

~ Charlie Jane Anders

Your real name is a mortal name. Now you need one that is immortal, the one that takes the high stage and plays above the rest. You can't be immortal and mortal at the same time.

~ Keith Buckley

I don’t need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp.

~ C.m. Hayden

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

~ Joanna Russ

If you’ve ever studied mortal age cartoons, you’ll remember this one. A coyote was always plotting the demise of a smirking long-necked bird. The coyote never succeeded; instead, his plans always backfired. He would blow up, or get shot, or splat from a ridiculous height.And it was funny.Because no matter how deadly his failure, he was always back in the next scene, as if there were a revival center just beyond the edge of the animation cell.I’ve seen human foibles that have resulted in temporary maiming or momentary loss of life. People stumble into manholes, are hit by falling objects, trip into the paths of speeding vehicles.And when it happens, people laugh, because no matter how gruesome the event, that person, just like the coyote, will be back in a day or two, as good as new, and no worse—or wiser—for the wear.Immortality has turned us all into cartoons.

~ Neal Shusterman

Outside the rain finally began to fall, surging in fits and starts. “I love the way it rains here,” he told her. “It reminds me that some forces of nature can never be entirely subdued. They are eternal, which is a far better thing to be than immortal.

~ Neal Shusterman

If you're in your 20s now, by the time you're 75, you'll be able to live 'til you're 150. By the time you're 150 you'll be able to live 'til you're 300. See you at your 1000th birthday party!

~ Neil A. Hogan

Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.

~ Christina Engela

The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Immortals must always give humans one thing! Either fear and terror! Or beauty!!

~ Ken Akamatsu