733 Quotes About Immortality

A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.

He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden? Who would want to give up an unblemished state of immortality for the insipid apple?

That which endures forever; it is released from nebulous name-giving.

Sometimes we have to go wrong to go right - Acheron

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.

Why love has to intense? Women's love isn't. It is a male contribution to a relationship. What does a woman contribute? Children continuity- intentional immortality.

If you want to be immortal, don't ever think about retirement.