733 Quotes About Immortality

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

I have no riches but my thoughts,Yet these are wealth enough for me;My thoughts of you are golden coinsStamped in the mint of memory;And I must spend them all in song,For thoughts, as well as gold, must beLeft on the hither side of deathTo gain their immortality.

A world without death would have no beauty, no yellow leaves in the autumn. It would be boring. There would be no change because change implies death. A world without death would be a frozen world. The fact is that we want to make the world better than God does.

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible - its a form of immortality.

As you reach your dreams, you will find that making your dreams come true is definitely not enough! Why? Because time is so limited; the road ends very quickly! The biggest dream is to have unlimited time! And before that biggest dream comes true, reaching thousands of ordinary dreams is nothing more than having silhouettes that will disappear in the darkness of the night!

Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality—

Love is a powerful thing. It transcends time and place. If you're looking for immortality, love long and love well. The rest will take care of itself.

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.