733 Quotes About Immortality

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.

For a life where diamonds really are forever

Есть упоение в бою,И бездны мрачной на краю,И в разъяренном океане,Средь грозных волн и бурной тьмы,И в аравийском урагане,И в дуновении Чумы.*Все, все, что гибелью грозит,Для сердца смертного таитНеизъяснимы наслажденья —Бессмертья, может быть, залог!И счастлив тот, кто средь волненьяИх обретать и ведать мог.

Immortality was like sex: it made idiots of otherwise rational people.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever; to capture moments; to capture Time itself.

Snakes in the ancient world, because of their skin-shedding ability, often symbolized immortality or eternal youth.

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.