IMMORTALITY QUOTES
quotations about immortality
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire
To lay their just hands on that golden key
That opes the palace of Eternity.
JOHN MILTON
Comus
Why was I born if it wasn't forever?
EUGENE IONESCO
Exit the King
Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
PLATO
The Republic
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
BRUCE LEE
attributed, The Greatest Quotations of All Time
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
ARISTOTLE
The Nicomachean Ethics
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,
The sun himself must die,
Before this mortal shall assume
Its immortality.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
The Last Man
Immortality is the birth-right of mankind.
SUSUNAGA WEERAPERUMA
The Essential Swami Ramdas
What you seek you shall never find.
For when the Gods made man,
They kept immortality to themselves.
UNKNOWN
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens.
ROBERT M. PRICE
The Empty Tomb
The life extension industry begins with a grain of truth but quickly gets mixed with a tablespoon of bad science, a cup of greed, a pint of exaggeration, and a gallon of human desire for a longer, healthier life--a recipe for false hope, broken promises, and unfulfilled dreams. The quest for immortality has produced countless chefs who have cooked up fantastic stories about aging, and people are consuming their products in massive quantities.
S. JAY OLSHANSKY & BRUCE A. CARNES
The Quest for Immortality
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
WOODY ALLEN
On Being Funny
I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without the absurdity of speculating upon another.
LORD BYRON
letter to Francis Hodgson, September 3, 1811
We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.
ELIE WIESEL
Moment Magazine, May-June 2013
Life is the root of Eden's loftiest tree
Whose ripened fruit is immortality.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"God's Gift to Man"
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
CARL SAGAN
Billions and Billions
If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.
EDWARD ABBEY
Desert Solitaire
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
SUSAN ERTZ
Anger in the Sky
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
IMMORTAL is an ample word
When what we need is by,
But when it leaves us for a time,
'Tis a necessity.
EMILY DICKINSON
"Immortal is an ample word"
But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills,
And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me,
And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd
To dwell in presence of immortal youth,
Immortal age beside immortal youth,
And all I was, in ashes.
ALFRED TENNYSON
"Tithonus"