Deathless Quotes

“Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.”
― Catherynne M. Valente

“Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.”
― E.M. Bounds

“Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons; let us drink each other's blood in the night and betray each other in the sun. Let us lie and lust and take hundreds of lovers; let us dance until snow melts between us. Let us steal and eat until we grow fat and roll in the pleasures of life, clutching each other for purchase.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“I have survived, but I have not been spared.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“The word Shiva means the deathless, changeless, timeless, formless all-pervading absolute essence of the universe. ”
― Amit Ray

“When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.”
― Cathrynne M. Valente

“You will live as you live in any world,' Madame Lebedeva said. She reached out her hand as if to grasp Marya's, as if to press it to her cheek, then closed her fingers, as if Marya's hand were in hers. 'With difficulty, and grief.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Why is it safe for you and not for me?" whispered Marya Morevna.
"Because you're still a girl." The vintovnik grinned. "Girls have to obey rules. Chyerti break them.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“«Non sanno nemmeno cosa sono gli scrittori, qui!»
Baba Jaga si ammorbidi, per quanto poteva ammorbidirsi. Le sue sopracciglia intrecciate si incresparono dolcemente. «Non significa che non sappiamo cosa siano le storie. Non significa che non ci camminiamo dentro ogni secondo. I čerti – cioè noi, demoni e diavoli, piccoli e grandi – sono compulsivi. Ossessivi. È la nostra natura. Giriamo su un binario, in tondo. Marciamo al passo. Recitiamo le stesse storie, ancora e ancora, le stesse serie di movimenti, mentre il tempo si accumula come il filo intorno a un arcolaio. Ci piacciono gli schemi. Sono confortanti. A volte cambiano delle piccole cose: un'auto invece di una casa, una ragazza che non si chiama Elena. Ma non è diverso, non proprio. Mai».”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Sanatan means eternal, timeless, deathless.

These are our real qualities. We are never born and we never die. The body is
only a shelter, we are not it. It is only like a garment which one has to change
when it is too old. And we have changed the garment so many times. We differ
from other people only if the form and the shape and the color and the size of the
garment. The innermost reality is the same.

To find it, to find that which is never born and never dies, is the real goal of all
religious enquiry. One can call it god, liberation, nirvana, enlightenment. They
are different names for the same phenomenon. And it is not to be searched for
somewhere else, it is within you. It is you, so you have to dive deep into your
own nature.

Sannyas is a pilgrimage from the periphery to the center, from your own surface
to your depth.”
― Osho

“Avinasho means the eternal one, the
indestructible one, the immortal one. That's your reality. You were never born and you will never die. You don't exist as part of time. You penetrate time, but you exist as eternity. You are reflected in time but time is only a mirror. The reality is beyond it.

Birth means the beginning of the reflection in the mirror. But the one who was reflected remains forever.

Mirrors go on changing but the mirrored one is eternal, it is deathless.

To be reminded of it is the purpose of meditation. Meditation changes your consciousness from the mirror to the original face, from the reflection to the original face. And to know one's original face is to know god. Your original face is god's face too. They are not different.”
― Osho

“Love is the rock on which the temple of love can be built. Without love our house is built on shifting sand. Then you don't have a solid foundation for your life.
When you make your life rooted in love, it will never collapse. Love is the only experience that defies death. Love is the only experience that knows no death.
A man or woman of love are unafraid of death, because love knows something of immortal existence. A moment of love is a taste of the eternal. It is to know that there is something within, which is going to persist. No death can destroy it. There is no possibility of it being erased from existence. You simply know that it is so.
The people who make their houses without the foundation of love, live empty lives. Life go on slipping out of their hands, and sooner or later death knocks on their door. They will not know what to do, because they will not know that something in them is going
to survive, so there is no need to fear.
Love makes one fearless. It means that you have known something of the deathless and immortal.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

“The most important thing in life is to discover  your truth. Truth is there, because we are alive and conscious. We have to go deeper into our consciousness. And once we have found our consciousness, we have found truth. 
Once you know who you are, you have found truth. When you find truth, the outer world will be the same, nothing in the outside world has changed, but you will be a totally different person. The outside world will be the same, but nothing will be the same, because you will have a totally new perspective, which is eternal, timeless and deathless.
Now you will know that you were before birth, and you will be after death. Now you are free from all small things: life's failures and successes, richness and poverty and small pains and pleasures. 
Now you can remain centered in every kind of situation in life. Nothing will make you waver, your groundedness is solid and absolute. This integrity, groundedness and state of consciousness remains untouchedby everything. 
This is the goal of meditation. Once it is discovered, one can live with joy, grace and God within one's heart. ”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Way of the Heart

“I've never needed you, Keita ... But I've always wanted you. More than anything, I've wanted you ... You're not a need, Keita, you're not an obligation to me. What you are is my happiness, my delight. When I didn't believe that there was good in the world, there was you. You're my comfort and joy, and I hope I'm the same for you.”
― Namina Forna, The Eternal Ones

“You never had a life to lose, a self to keep, or a death to fear. Only the illusion of separation collapsing back into the clarity that was always watching.”
― PIERRE LAGRENAT

“Every death that didn’t happen... this is where they came. All of the endings that tried and failed.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Where Is Death: A Cosmic Horror Tale About Six Broken Strangers and the Search for Death, Who’s Gone Missing Without a Trace