Imortality Quotes

“The goal isn't to live on forever; it's to make something that does.”
― Monty Oum

“How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel.”
― Greg Egan, Permutation City

“I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Whales and Men

“I hope you don't get in trouble," I said, but how could trouble find us?
We were miraculous.
We were beach creatures.
We had treasures in our pockets and each other on our skin.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“In the chair, watching the fire and thinking of Pop and how sad it was that he was not immortal, and how happy I was that he had been able to be with us so much, that we’d been lucky enough to have three or four things together that were like the Old Days along with just the happiness of being together and talking and joking, I fell asleep.”
― Ernest Hemingway, True at First Light

“You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.”
― Rick Yancey, Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales

“It is because of this point that Gautam Buddha denies the existence of one God. He denies one God, not because he is an atheist; he denies one God because he respects every living being as a god. There are as many gods as there are living beings. A few have attained to the realization of who they are, and most of the people among the living beings are still asleep. They do not know who they are but their ignorance does not change their nature
The moment one becomes conscious of himself, he is no longer a mortal; he becomes an immortal. He has always been an immortal but because of his misunderstanding, he degraded himself into being a mortal, into someone who is going to die.
But still, those who are aware of their being know that nobody dies. Death is an illusion.The authentic religion does not teach you to worship. The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.”
― Osho

“He didn’t have the courage to wait until the old man finished praying. He had no idea how he should respond to the question he was certain would come from the man’s lips. Making a hasty sign of the cross, he placed his hand on the headstone—for the first and last time. Feeling something stronger and more meaningful than anything he had experienced before, he nodded goodbye to the old man and quickly walked toward the cemetery gate.”
― Andrzej Wronka, The Last