Quotes about Immortality

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.

Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.

[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him.

I knew he wouldn't die, because his life was like the roots of a tree that went miles into the soil and miles around its trunk and came up in my cousins, in their faces and their voices and their character. I didn't think you could kill a tree that big. Not even God could kill a tree that big.

Set your immortal soul before your mind's eye, and when men ask you why you live as you do, answer them in his spirit, "I live for my soul.

Immortality is here and now, and is not a speculative something beyond the grave. It is a lucid state of consciousness in which the sensations of the body, the varying and unrestful states of mind, and the circumstances and events of life are seen to be of a fleeting and therefore of an illusory character.

You know what I wish? I wish I could put time in a bottle and throw it into the ocean. Then I would have forever to spend with you. I wouldn't need air to breathe or food to eat. Holding you in my arms would be all the food I would need. Having your love would be the only air I would need to breathe.

I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.