733 Quotes About Immortality

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

The problem with living forever, of course, is you have to live forever before you know you're immortal...or invincible. Even the gods, in this way, must always remain uncertain. Time trumps immortality just as uncertainty trumps omniscience, for a knower can only ever know what it knows, never what it doesn't. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

It’s the reality of life that the body will expire one day. Death for the body is inevitable, but you are not that body nor your old body. Tell me, can the eyes of a dead body see? Can the mouth of a dead body talk?

He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.

Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.

. . . fear of death makes us want to engage in activities that render us unique, allowing us to reach a level of putative immortality. Death anxiety, Becker believes, is the powerful undercurrent stirring human behavior.

Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.

Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for im­mor­tal­ity.

Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities.