Quotes on Immortality

If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

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.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.