I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears,
- and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth,
- thou livest forever!"
~ Lord George Gordon  Noel Byron (1788-1824)

How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality,
splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance,
self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.  ~ Clement of Rome

 What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality
~ Jean Pierre Claris De Florian

 We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.  ~ Harriet Martineau

 The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality ~ The Divine Pymander

When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we're only immortal --
For a limited time

 Dreamline  ~ Rush

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.    
 ~ Woody Allen

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~ Susan Ertz

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.  
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.
~ Stephen King

There is an old proverb that says: 'Be careful what you wish for, for it might come true.' And if your wish is for immortality, it is something you will have to live with for a very long time.
~ The Outer Limits

Life is the childhood of our immortality. ~ Goethe

 All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. ~ Socrates

Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.  
~ William Shakespeare

 Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality ~ William Ernest Hocking

Immortality - a fate worse than death.  ~ Edgar A. Shoaff

 Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope ~ Robert G. Ingersoll

 Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality.

~ Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may  ~ Plato

 What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.  ~ Albert Pine

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. ~ Smiley Blanton

Immortality, n:
A toy which people cry for,
And on their knees apply for,
Dispute, contend and lie for,
And if allowed
Would be right proud
Eternally to die for.

~ Ambrose Bierce : The Devil's Dictionary

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality. ~ Sigmund Freud

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality  ~ Ptolemy

No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What is a claim of power for ones who defy death? Call your damnable hunt. We shall see whom I drag screaming to hell with me. ~ Hunter S Thompson

Life is eternal and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon... and a horizon is nothing, save the limit of our sight. ~ Carly Simon

I am the vampire Lestat. I'm immortal. More or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire - these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.
~ Anne Rice : The Vampire Lestat

 The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
~ Herb Caen:

 Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.~ Clifton Fadiman

Gone is the builder's temple,
Crumbled into the dust;
Low lies each stately pillar,
Food for consuming rust,
But the temple the teacher builded
Will last while the ages roll,
For that beautiful unseen temple
Was a child's immortal soul.

~ Hattie Vose Hall

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched. ~ Unknown

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ~ James Thurber:

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. ~ Robert Southey

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. ~ Pindar, 518-438 B.C.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
~ Honoré de Balzac

Tiger, tiger burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry.

~ William Blake

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.  ~ George Santayana

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal   ~ Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.
 ~ Lord George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824)

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. ~ Sydney J. Harris

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

This world falls on me
hopes of immortality
everywhere i turn
all the beauty just keeps shaking me

World Falls ~ Amy Ray

 
Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it
can only find itself in changing forms ~ Sir Rabindranath Tagore

 Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
~ Samuel Langhorne Clemens "Mark Twain "(On his deathbed)

We are immortal until our work on earth is done. ~ George Whitefield

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
~ Peter Ustinov

We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. ~ Woodrow Wyatt

The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again
~ Heywood Broun

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever?
Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all?
This is a miracle; and that no more."
~ Edward Young