Immortality Quotes

“Wouldn’t the joys of life lose all colour, if life was eternal?”
― Constantina Maud, Hydranos

“After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.”
― Simon R. Green, The Bride Wore Black Leather

“Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.”
― Werner Von Braun

“I was made to rule the darkness.”
― Rae Hachton, Evermore

“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, Thrawn

“My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story

“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 of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be....”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“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,' I whispered back to her, 'I am more mortal than all. It seems that a part of me dies every night that I lie with you.”
― Roman Payne

“Time is not your enemy, forever is.”
― Chris Avellone

“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, Delirium's Mistress

“A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in this seemingly hopeless pile, is hidden deep within. The burning embers incarnate the perpetual desire to go from spark to flame.”
― Akilnathan Logeswaran

“One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washèd it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide and made my pains his prey.
Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalise;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wipèd out likewise.
Not so (quod I); let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame;
My verse your virtues rare shall eternise,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.”
― Edmund Spenser, Amoretti And Epithalamion

“Home. That wonderful place I was lucky enough to revisit no matter how short a time finally realizing it's not relegated to just one single place its wherever you make it.”
― Alyson Noel, Blue Moon

“It took courage to live an immortal life and not close off your heart and mind to any new experiences or new people. Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.”
― Doug Dillon

“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

“Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping of a heartbeat, the rocker is transformed from decadent hedonist into misunderstood genius. Aye, death and musical stardom go together like Scotland and rain.”
― Mark Rice, Metallic Dreams

“Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?”
― Nalini Singh, Angels' Blood

“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

“You may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that for a moment, never dying? Never fading? Existing, just as you are, for all time?”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ever

“Մահ ոչ իմացեալ՝ մահ է, մահ իմացեալ՝ անմահութիւն է:
Death, unanticipated, is death; death, anticipated, is immortality.”
― Eghishe (Yeghishe)

“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Mastering time isn’t about stopping time, rather, slowing down its effects.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“The more you mock, the higher I fly,
More you ignore, more evident I become.
Every act of hate ends up feeding my light,
More you persecute, more immortal I become.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Immortality is not merely what happens after your mortal life is over. It is more important than that. Immortality is what happens when love conquers time-when a person’s ability to love others and to act in pure love and goodness stretches beyond death to live forever in the heart of the human race.”
― Brittney Ryan