“We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and worked on with care. All the secrets in the world worth… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Might there come a time When we stand over a grave And mourn ourselves? Mourn the past, a previous life? Shall we… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
What do I mean when I say 'suspended animation'? It is the process by which animals de-animate, appear dead and then can… — Mark Roth Copy Share Image
None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The Light of the world is not put out. Now have death and the grave been converted into the great testimonies for… — Frederick Denison Maurice Copy Share Image
Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man’s melodies become profound, acquiring mystery and rising… — Mark Rice Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking lately about immortality. What it means to be remembered, what I want to be remembered for, certain questions concerning… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation . . . I am an infidel… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality. — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.” — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else… — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture—that is immortality enough for… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does. — William Mountford Copy Share Image
“A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I personally am not so obsessed about immortality for myself. The human body has been designed that way, obsolescence is OK. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
The only true immortality is when you don't care if you die. The moment you stop giving credence to gain is when… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, /… — Sappho Copy Share Image
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. — Susan Ertz Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality. — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
