733 Quotes About Immortality

We have presumed based not on our own but on others’ deaths that we are mortal.

what good is immortality if nothing has been done to repair the fault lines in the human heart? -Shuos Mikodez

Das verzweifelte Nichtsterbenwollen ist der sicherste Weg zum ewigen Tode, während Sterbenkönnen, Hüllenabstreifen, ewige Hingabe des Ichs an die Wandlung führt zur Unsterblichkeit.

To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know hot to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know hot to be dead.

Jazz!A manifesto of survivors!Insanity is shattered to pieces!future of colours! red lemons! blue blood vesicle of black oranges!The only ailment is the fever!Revolution!Amok run of the trumpets!Overflow!Plate streamed with blood!A bitten heart!Lung rupture!Jazz! JazzImmortality of the nerves!"Snippet from the poem "JAZZ"by Klaus Kinski - Fever- Diary Of A Leper: Poems

Just a corner, just an instant, just a poem away lay an unimaginably rich world where gods walked alongside the chosen few; and if you ever won your way there, your reward was meaning conferred upon your daily labors and travails by the promise of immortality, by the clarity of secret luminescence.

But, when our immortality projects fail, when the meaning is lost, when the prospect of our conceptual self outliving our physical self no longer seems possible or likely, death terror -- that horrible, depressing anxiety -- creeps back into our mind. Trauma can cause this, as can shame and social ridicule. As can, as Becker points out, mental illness.

Immortality is a matter of the mind, not of the body - you are alive as long as people can remember you by your actions - by the idea that your life represents.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.