IMMORTALITY QUOTES

quotations about immortality

Immortality quote

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

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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

PLATO

The Republic

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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


All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,
The sun himself must die,
Before this mortal shall assume
Its immortality.

THOMAS CAMPBELL

The Last Man


The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

BRUCE LEE

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Immortality is the birth-right of mankind.

SUSUNAGA WEERAPERUMA

The Essential Swami Ramdas


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


What you seek you shall never find.
For when the Gods made man,
They kept immortality to themselves.

UNKNOWN

The Epic of Gilgamesh


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


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


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

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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


I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

WOODY ALLEN

On Being Funny


Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

SUSAN ERTZ

Anger in the Sky


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


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


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"

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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"