Quotes about Immortality

Life in death concerns those who are titled and whose titles, since they are timeless, may not be extinguished by death. Immortality, in this case, is not a reward but the condition necessary to the possession of rewards. Victors live forever not because their souls are unaffected by death but because their titles must not be forgotten.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.