No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay young forever or to stop aging. But it… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“Normally, the mortal would be emptied of his soul. His truest essence, which, if the bastard was lucky, would be released to… — Angel Rosa Copy Share Image
Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower! — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“That which endures forever; it is released from nebulous name-giving.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image