Quotes about Immortality

Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

Ptolemy said, "Mortal though I be, yea, ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at night's starry domain of heaven, then no longer on earth I stand: I touch the Creator and my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

A man who has the ability to generate a new word and to inject it into the bloodstream of the language seems to me only a little lower than the Creator of light and darkness. If you write a book, you may be fortunate enough to be read for a while, until other, better books come along and take its place; but to produce a new word is to approach immortality.

How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he shall never die; that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on for ever. Those that lie here stretched before us, the wise and the powerful of ancient times, warn us to remember the shortness of our present state; they were, perhaps, snatched away while they were busy, like us, in the choice of life.

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

Death, thou shalt die.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, death thou shalt die.