733 Quotes About Immortality

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

Our mortality makes it impossible for our problems to last forever.

What good is immortality if nothing has been done to repair the fault lines in the human heart?

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind.

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief."And you so intelligent!""Excuse me?" said tom"Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it.""How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

Live each day as every other creature on earth does, that is, as if you were going to live forever.