73 Immortality Quotes

Immortality has fascinated humanity for centuries, inspiring countless stories, philosophies, and daydreams about living forever. Whether it's the pursuit of eternal youth or the quest for an everlasting legacy, the idea of defying death resonates deeply within us all. In this blog post, we've carefully curated a collection of the top 73 immortality quotes, featuring insights from literary giants, philosophical thinkers, and cultural icons. These quotes offer a glimpse into the diverse perspectives on immortality, providing both food for thought and a touch of timeless wisdom. Dive in and let these words transport you to a realm where the boundaries of life and death blur, and the eternal becomes conceivable.

1. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” - Thomas Campbell

2. “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” - Antonio Porchia

4. “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.” - J.G. Ballard

5. “We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...” - John Lennon

6. “And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.” - Anton Chekhov

7. “A man's immortality can be found in his children.” - Patricia Briggs

8. “Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe he is dead.” - H. L. Mencken

9. “You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!” - Abraham Lincoln

10. “The only true immortality lies in one's children.[Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger]” - Johannes Brahms

11. “Nothing but truth is immortal.” - Robert G. Ingersoll

12. “Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.” - John Muir

13. “Something tells me that immortality is monstrous.” - Floriano Martins

14. “Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.” - Terry Pratchett

15. “A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins.” - Salman Rushdie

16. “Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.” - Stephen King

17. “Study, along the lines which the theologies have mapped, will never lead us to discovery of the fundamental facts of our existence. That goal must be attained by means of exact science and can only be achieved by such means. The fact that man, for ages, has superstitiously believed in what he calls a God does not prove at all that his theory has been right. There have been many gods – all makeshifts, born of inability to fathom the deep fundamental truth. There must be something at the bottom of existence, and man, in ignorance, being unable to discover what it is through reason, because his reason has been so imperfect, undeveloped, has used, instead, imagination, and created figments, of one kind or another, which, according to the country he was born in, the suggestions of his environment, satisfied him for the time being. Not one of all the gods of all the various theologies has ever really been proved. We accept no ordinary scientific fact without the final proof; why should we, then, be satisfied in this most mighty of all matters, with a mere theory?Destruction of false theories will not decrease the sum of human happiness in future, any more than it has in the past... The days of miracles have passed. I do not believe, of course, that there was ever any day of actual miracles. I cannot understand that there were ever any miracles at all. My guide must be my reason, and at thought of miracles my reason is rebellious. Personally, I do not believe that Christ laid claim to doing miracles, or asserted that he had miraculous power...Our intelligence is the aggregate intelligence of the cells which make us up. There is no soul, distinct from mind, and what we speak of as the mind is just the aggregate intelligence of cells. It is fallacious to declare that we have souls apart from animal intelligence, apart from brains. It is the brain that keeps us going. There is nothing beyond that.Life goes on endlessly, but no more in human beings than in other animals, or, for that matter, than in vegetables. Life, collectively, must be immortal, human beings, individually, cannot be, as I see it, for they are not the individuals – they are mere aggregates of cells.There is no supernatural. We are continually learning new things. There are powers within us which have not yet been developed and they will develop. We shall learn things of ourselves, which will be full of wonders, but none of them will be beyond the natural.[Columbian Magazine interview]” - Thomas A. Edison

18. “Immortality goes through dead before all.” - Sorin Cerin

19. “I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.” - John Ashbery

20. “I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me.” - Edsger W. Dijkstra

21. “What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.” - Tanith Lee

22. “Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.” - Thomas Malory

23. “Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.” - Kouta Hirano

24. “No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to pass more than a fortnight in the same place. I have no Friend in the world, and from the restlessness of my destiny I never can acquire one. Fain would I lay down my miserable life, for I envy those who enjoy the quiet of the Grave: But Death eludes me, and flies from my embrace. In vain do I throw myself in the way of danger. I plunge into the Ocean; The Waves throw me back with abhorrence upon the shore: I rush into fire; The flames recoil at my approach: I oppose myself to the fury of Banditti; Their swords become blunted, and break against my breast: The hungry Tiger shudders at my approach, and the Alligator flies from a Monster more horrible than itself. God has set his seal upon me, and all his Creatures respect this fatal mark!” - Matthew Gregory Lewis

25. “Who needs immortal strength when you've got weapons of mass destruction?” - J.A. Saare

26. “How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard to achieve after all. Why then does he persist in inscribing marks on paper, in the faint hope that people not yet born will take the trouble to decipher them?” - J.M. Coetzee

27. “o gün akşamüstü son bir defa daha kırlarda dolaşmaya çıktığında yaşadığı tuhaf bir anı hatırladı: bir dere kıyısına gelmiş, çimenlere uzanmıştı. uzun süre orada öylece uzanmış, akarsuyun ta içinden geçerek bütün acıları ve bütün pislikleri; ben'ini sürükleyip götürdüğünü sanmıştı. tuhaf, unutulmaz bir an: ben'ini unutmuş, ben'ini kaybetmiş, kurtulmuştu; ve bu mutluluktu.bu anı içinde silik, uçucu ama çok önemli (belki de hepsinin en önemlisi olan) bir düşünceyi uyandırdı.hayatta dayanılmaz olan şey var olmak değil, kendin olmak.yaşamakta mutluluk diye birşey yok. yaşamak: acılı ben'ini dünya adına taşımak. ama olmak, olmak mutluluk. olmak, çeşmeye, evrenin içine ılık bir yağmur gibi indiği taş bir havuza dönüşmek.” - Milan Kundera

28. “Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.” - H. Rider Haggard

29. “Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.” - Cassandra Clare

30. “A finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.” - G.K. Chesterton

31. “I’m an immortal. But I don’t want to be one anymore. Or rather, I don’t want to be an immortal stuck in a mortal world anymore. There is something greater out there for me, but in order to get it I need someone to put an end to my life in this world.” - Ramsey Isler

32. “After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.” - Simon R. Green

33. “We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.” - Cassandra Clare

34. “Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

35. “Where there is life, there is hope.” - Alyson Noel

36. “Time is not your enemy, forever is.” - Chris Avellone

37. “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

38. “We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.” - John Banville

39. “I once met a traveler who told me he would live to see the end of time. He laid out all his vitamins before me and told me he slept seven hours every night, no more or less. All the life you want, he said. It's all within the palm of your hand now. He said he would outlast all the wars and all the diseases, long enough to remember everything, and long enough to forget everything. He'd be the last man still standing when the sun decides to collapse upon itself and history ends. He said he had found the safest place on earth, where he could stay until the gateway to the beyond opened before him. A thousand generations from today. I pictured him there, atop a remote and snowy mountain. The heavens opening and God congratulating him for his perseverance. Asking him to join Him and watch as the sun burns down to a dull orange cinder and everything around it breaks is orbit and goes tumbling tumbling away, everything that once seemed permanent pulled apart so effortlessly, like a ball of yarn. A life into divinity.But I knew it was a lie. I've always known it was a lie. You can not hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.” - Drew Magary

40. “But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.” - Tom Robbins

41. “Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.” - Tom Robbins

42. “Shall a mangrave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them onthe water? Nay, oh /She/, I will live my day, and grow old with mygeneration, and die my appointed death, and be forgotten.” - H. Rider Haggard

43. “Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of the longcenturies falls upon our imperishable being, like water slow drippingon a diamond that it cannot wear, till they be born anew forgetful ofus, and again sink from our helpless arms into the void unknowable.” - H. Rider Haggard

44. “Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I’ve come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

45. “If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.” - Dan Simmons

46. “Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.” - Doug Dillon

47. “Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark; leave a positive legacy!” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

48. “If it had only been for the immortality gene, humanity would have eventually managed to turn it back on. At one point in history, they would have embarked on a quest to become immortals, like the gods. But they couldn’t and the whole of humanity still can’t and won’t.” - Mario Stinger

49. “‎And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?” - Seth Grahame-Smith

50. “How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.” - Wendell Phillips

51. “The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness".” - Leonard D. Orr

52. “Que la vida es inmortal mientras se vive, mientras se está con vida. Que la inmortalidad no es una cuestión de más o menos tiempo, que no es una cuestión de inmortalidad, que es una cuestión de otra cosa que permanece ignorada. Que es tan falso decir que carece de principio y de fin como decir que empieza y termina en la vida del alma desde el momento en que participa del alma y de la prosecución del viento. Mirad las arenas muertas del desierto, el cuerpo muerto de los niños: la inmortalidad no pasa por ahí, se detiene y los esquiva.” - Marguerite Duras

53. “You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.” - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

54. “It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with modern man is not so much that he situates himself in the future of a human lifetime, since he fears death far too much to do that, but rather than he does not situate himself in any of these three scales of time. Instead, he is forever stuck somewhere in-between, this evening, tomorrow morning, next week, next Christmas, in five years’ time. As a result, he has neither the joy of the present moment, nor the satisfied accomplishments of a human lifetime, nor the perspective and immortality of the eternal.” - Neel Burton

55. “Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

56. “Ride higher in life unto the higher life.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

57. “Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

58. “Life is beautiful if you take the best option.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

59. “It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

60. “Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

61. “I would live forever if I could, but not like this.” - Gary Young

62. “There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

63. “Avoid conflicts, Embrace cordiality.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

64. “Have the best course for all your actions.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

65. “Always contend for the good!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

66. “Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

67. “Drown those degrading thoughts.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

68. “Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

69. “You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

70. “Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice.” - Anyaele Sam Chiyson

71. “Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.” - Héctor Abad Faciolince

72. “It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.” - Christine Amsden

73. “Might there come a timeWhen we stand over a graveAnd mourn ourselves?Mourn the past, a previous life?Shall we weep for the passing of time?Shall we grieve for unfulfilled dreams?In my naivety; in my beliefIn immortal youth, I sleep walk through life.Someone... wake me up.Please.Wake me up.” - Samantha Young