Quotes about immortal (821 quotes, page 2)

“The wiser head gives in! An immortal phrase. It founds the world dominion of stupidity.”

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer

Der Gescheitere gibt nach! Ein unsterbliches Wort. Es begründet die Weltherrschaft der Dummheit.
Aphorisms (1893), p. 6

Stupidity , World

“If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize at one effort the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own — the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple — a few plain words — "My Heart Laid Bare."”

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic

But — this little book must be true to its title.
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)

Books , World , Effort , Universe

“It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse—
That we who lived by honest dreams
Defend the bad against the worse.”

Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972) English poet

Where are the War Poets? (1943)

Dreams , Time

“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.”

G. H. Hardy book A Mathematician's Apology

A Mathematician's Apology (1941)

Mathematics , Idea , Chance

“Despite perplexing diversities, our people retain a remarkable dynamism and spirit of adventure. Our resilience springs from our well-established traditions of patience and perseverance, tolerance and compassion… and it is to this eternal and immortal India that we rededicate ourselves today.”

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913–1996) sixth President of India

Source: Pranab Mukherjee "Speech by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee at the concluding function of the centenary celebrations of the former President of India, Dr. Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy"

People , Spring , Patience , Perseverance

“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 (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher

212
The Symposium

God , Beauty , Reality

“Jewel-Like the immortal
does not boast of its length of years
but of the scintillating point of the moment.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

29
Fireflies (1928)

“There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

Book XL, sec. 46
History of Rome

Friendship , Truth

“O YE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MINDS TO KNOW AND EARS TO HEAR!
The first call of the Beloved is this: O mystic nightingale! Abide not but in the rose-garden of the spirit. O messenger of the Solomon of love! Seek thou no shelter except in the Sheba of the well-beloved, and O immortal phoenix! dwell not save on the mount of faithfulness. Therein is thy habitation, if on the wings of thy soul thou soarest to the realm of the infinite and seekest to attain thy goal.”

Bahá'u'lláh book The Hidden Words

The Hidden Words

Love , People , Faith , Soul

“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 (1991)”

Neil Peart (1952–2020) Canadian-American drummer , lyricist, and author

Rush Lyrics

Dreams , Learning , Time

“This foundation of the class struggle, which Marx – and this is his immortal service – has given to the modern labor movement, is the main point of attack in the battle which the bourgeois political economy is waging with socialism.”

Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) German socialist politician

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
Context: This foundation of the class struggle, which Marx – and this is his immortal service – has given to the modern labor movement, is the main point of attack in the battle which the bourgeois political economy is waging with socialism. The political economists deny the class struggle and would make of the labor movement only a part of the bourgeois party movements, and the Social Democracy only a division of the bourgeois democracy. The bourgeois political economy and politics direct all their exertions against the class character of the modern labor movement. If it were possible to create a breach in this bulwark, in this citadel of the Social Democracy, then the Social Democracy is conquered, and the proletariat thrown back under the dominion of capitalistic society. However small such a breach may be in the beginning, the enemy has the power to widen it and the certainty of final victory. And the enemy is most dangerous when he comes as a friend to the fortress, when he slinks in under the cover of friendship, and is recognized as a friend and comrade. The enemy who comes to us with open visor we face with a smile; to set our foot upon his neck is mere play for us. The stupidly brutal acts of violence of police politicians, the outrages of anti-socialist laws, the anti-revolution laws, penitentiary bills – these only arouse feelings of pitying contempt; the enemy, however, that reaches out the hand to us for a political alliance; and intrudes himself upon us as a friend and brother, – him and him alone have we to fear. Our fortress can withstand every assault – it can not be stormed nor taken from us by siege – it can only fall when we ourselves open the doors to the enemy and take him into our ranks as a fellow comrade. Growing out of the class struggle, our party rests upon the class struggle as a condition of its existence. Through and with that struggle the party is unconquerable; without it the party is lost, for it will have lost the source of its strength. Whoever fails to understand this or thinks that the class struggle is a dead issue, or that class antagonisms are gradually being effaced, stands upon the basis of bourgeois philosophy.

“We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled. Our power comes from those immortal declarations first put to paper right here in Philadelphia all those years ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that We the People, can form a more perfect union.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

2016, DNC Address (July 2016)
Context: America is already great. America is already strong. And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump. In fact, it doesn’t depend on any one person. And that, in the end, may be the biggest difference in this election — the meaning of our democracy.
Ronald Reagan called America “a shining city on a hill.” Donald Trump calls it “a divided crime scene” that only he can fix. It doesn’t matter to him that illegal immigration and the crime rate are as low as they’ve been in decades — (applause) — because he’s not actually offering any real solutions to those issues. He’s just offering slogans, and he’s offering fear. He’s betting that if he scares enough people, he might score just enough votes to win this election.
And that's another bet that Donald Trump will lose. And the reason he'll lose it is because he’s selling the American people short. We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled. Our power comes from those immortal declarations first put to paper right here in Philadelphia all those years ago: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that We the People, can form a more perfect union.
That's who we are. That’s our birthright — the capacity to shape our own destiny.

Men , People , Truth , Way

“As God has made the soul immortal, he has made the universe infinite, if it is true that eternity is nothing other than unlimited duration and infinity is space without limits.”

Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist

The Other World (1657)
Context: As God has made the soul immortal, he has made the universe infinite, if it is true that eternity is nothing other than unlimited duration and infinity is space without limits. Suppose the universe were not infinite: God himself would be finite, because he could not be where there is nothing, and he could not increase the size of the universe without adding to his own size and come to be where he had not been before.

God , Soul , Universe

“All those… who discourse concerning nature, always subject a certain other nature of… elements, to the infinite… But no one of those who make the elements to be finite introduces infinity. Such, however, as make infinite elements, as Anaxagoras and Democritus, say that the infinite is continuous by contact. …Rationally, too, do all philosophers consider the infinite as a principle; for it cannot be in vain, nor can any other power be present with it than that of a principle: for all things are either the principle, or from the principle; but of the infinite there is no principle, since otherwise it would have an end. …it is also unbegotten and uncorruptible, as being a certain principle: for… end is the corruption of everything. …It likewise appears to comprehend and govern all things, as those assert who do not introduce other causes beside the infinite… It would seem also that this is divine: for it is immortal and indestructible, as Anaximander says, and most of the physiologists.”

Aristotle book Physics

Book III, Ch. IV, pp. 152-155.
Physics

Nature , Appearance

“Of the pleasures and pains of opium much has been written. The ecstasies and horrors of De Quincey and the paradis artificiels of Baudelaire are preserved and interpreted with an art which makes them immortal, and the world knows well the beauty, the terror and the mystery of those obscure realms into which the inspired dreamer is transported.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

Fiction, The Crawling Chaos (1921)
Context: Of the pleasures and pains of opium much has been written. The ecstasies and horrors of De Quincey and the paradis artificiels of Baudelaire are preserved and interpreted with an art which makes them immortal, and the world knows well the beauty, the terror and the mystery of those obscure realms into which the inspired dreamer is transported. But much as has been told, no man has yet dared intimate the nature of the phantasms thus unfolded to the mind, or hint at the direction of the unheard-of roads along whose ornate and exotic course the partaker of the drug is so irresistibly borne.

Pain , Pleasure , World , Beauty

“For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.”

Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

G.T.W. Patrick, 1889 http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/heraclitus/herpatu.htm
Variant: For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all – immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

Men , Understanding , Sense , Teachers

“Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality.”

Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer

The first sentence of this was used by William Torrey Harris for the motto of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy
Novalis (1829)
Context: Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

God , Freedom

“In a word, his hopes are full of immortality, his schemes are large and glorious, and his conduct suitable to one who knows his true interest, and how to pursue it by proper methods.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

No. 225.
The Tatler (1711–1714)
Context: The cast of mind which is natural to a discreet man, make him look forward into futurity, and consider what will be his condition millions of ages hence, as well as what it is at present. He knows that the misery or happiness which are reserved for him in another world, lose nothing of their reality by being placed at so great a distance from him. The objects do not appear little to him because they are remote. He considers that those pleasures and pains which lie hid in eternity, approach nearer to him every moment, and will be present with him in their full weight and measure, as much as those pains and pleasures which he feels at this very instant. For this reason he is careful to secure to himself that which is the proper happiness of his nature, and the ultimate design of his being. He carries his thoughts to the end of every action, and considers the most distant as well as the most immediate effects of it. He supersedes every little prospect of gain and advantage which offers itself here, if he does not find it consistent with his views of an hereafter. In a word, his hopes are full of immortality, his schemes are large and glorious, and his conduct suitable to one who knows his true interest, and how to pursue it by proper methods.

Hope

“Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Life

“For us in India the fascination is even greater, and even. our self-interest compels us to understand the vast forces which have upset the old order of things and brought a new world into existence, where values have changed utterly and old standards have given place to new. We are a conservative people, not ever-fond of change, always trying to forget our present misery and degradation in vague fancies of our glorious past and immortal civilisation. But the past is dead and gone and our immortal civilisation does not help us greatly in solving the problems of today.”

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India

Soviet Russia: Some Random Sketches and Impressions (1949)

Understanding , Dead , Past , Forgetting

“It is time to leave behind childish attitudes and begin to pay a little more attention to what is really here. This is a time-body, a mortal body, but an immortal presence is moving in it. While the body is still warm, use this bodily life to rediscover your timeless Being.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Introduction

Time , Life

“Jesus died so young and yet he promised immortality to those who believe in his teachings.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Imagine that Jesus died on the cross. But who will be immortal in this world, or are you not going to die too my dear friend?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Imagination , World

“True faith is faith in the immortality of Human.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Faith

“I have Immortal longings in me.”

Cleopatra VII (-69–-30 BC) last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt

As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act V, (1623)

“Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

Source: On the Pleasure of Hating

Love , Indifference

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

Albert Pike (1809–1891) Confederate States Army general and Freemason

"1860. In Lodge of Sorrow at Washington: March 30.", p. 11 
In sentiment this is similar to the expression made much earlier by Giordano Bruno in On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584) : "What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own."
Ex Corde Locutiones: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren
Variant: What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

World

“even if vampires were stupid. Especially American vampires. They hung out in places Alaric himself would never have gone, especially if he were immortal. Such as high schools. And Walmart.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Insatiable

Stupidity , School

“Immortality: 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 (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

People , Lie , Cry

“Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Tree

“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Life , Death

“You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing airports and I think, "Aww. They've just been told.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

Death , Children , Thinking

“Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?”

Anne Rice book The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Queen of the Damned

Reading

“No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.”

Jorge Luis Borges book The Immortal

"The Immortal" (1949)

Men , God , World , Way

“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Sect. 30, as translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925); also in The Demon and the Quantum: From the Pythagorean Mystics to Maxwell's Demon (2007) by Robert J. Scully, Marlan O. Scully, p. 11

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Heartbreaking , For Him , For Mother , Love

“O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!" There is no speech nor language where this voice is not heard; but the bold, bad man heard it not. He woke with an oath and a curse. What to him was the gold and purple, the daily miracle of morning!”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ch 36 Emmeline and Cassy
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

Beauty , Chance

“But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”

E.M. Forster book A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

People , Dead

“Just because you're a gutless harlot doesn't mean I won't find your… attributes attractive. I might be immortal, but I'm still a red-blooded male."

"Harlot? Who talks like that? Father Time, meet the Flinstones.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Endless Knight

Time

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

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

Light

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Friendship , Soul

“I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-"

"And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?"

"He died," Magnus said. There was a finality to the way he said it that spoke of a deeper grief than words could paint.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Way , Girl , Painting

“Such was a poet and shall be and is
-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Life , Mountain , Despair

“Nick: How? Are you a vampire or something? What made you immortal?
Acheron: Real good DNA.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XIII, The Self Inflicted Wounds, p. 176

Error

“The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Life

“What made you immortal? (Nick)
Really good DNA. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)”

Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist

Source: White Noise: Text and Criticism

Nature , Universe

“Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury
you. I already buried everyone else."

"How can I die," Alexander said, his voice breaking, "when you
have poured your immortal blood into me?”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Thinking

“To be immortal and then die”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

Source: Breathless

“Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

“To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”

John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

Life , Feeling

“What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal… and then die.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

Life

“How old is she now?" he asked.
"Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Tree

“That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Love , Life

“Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Immortal Beloved

Dead

“It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.”

Milan Kundera book Immortality

Source: Immortality

Death , Forgetting

“Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Knowledge , Heart

“Immortals are never alien to one another.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

“Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality…and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.”

Dan Simmons book Hyperion

Source: Hyperion (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 186)

Pain , Youth

“O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude…”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

O May I Join the Choir Invisible (1867)
Source: O May I Join the Choir Invisible! And Other Favourite Poems
Context: O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's search To vaster issues.
Context: O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable aims that end with self,
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge men's search
To vaster issues.

Dead

“My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Source: Dickinson: Poems

Life , Hell , Parting

“In the immortal words of Maya Angelou … people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Inferno

People , Angels , Feeling , Forgetting

“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

Source: The Book of Lost Things

Death , Hope , Nature , Time

“How much longer will I live? (Urian)
You’re immortal, barring death. (Acheron)
That doesn’t make sense. (Urian)
Most of life doesn’t. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Life , Death , Sense

“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 (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Dogs , Personality

“You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman…
'You never can tell…' he answered.
'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.
'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

Dead

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Funny , Beauty , Friendship , Romantic

“There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: The Library at Night

“You aren't angry "
"You must be joking " she said dryly. "I'm alive Nicholas. And I'm immortal like you. This rocks”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: The Renegade Hunter

“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Source: To Love This Life: Quotations By Helen Keller

Soul

“You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal”

Martin Amis book Money

Source: Money

Way , Time , Fight , Dependency

“Words are immortal - Elinor”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold

Books , Parting

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator

Source: Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, Parts 1-2

Kiss

“I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Life , Religion

“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: The Library at Night

Books , Sense , Reading

“Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

Wealth , Happiness

“A man's immortality can be found in his children.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Raven's Shadow

Children

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“Nothing but truth is immortal.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Source: The Ghosts and Other Lectures

Truth

“Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be…”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

Death , Fear , Baby

“Do we still have to floss?" Tommy asked. "I mean, what's the point of being immortal if we have to floss?”

Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy

Source: You Suck

“That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Pretty Little Liars Box Set

“Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,
When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,
Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom”

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

Source: Paris Spleen

Fate , Way

“Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)

"The Old Manse": The Author Makes the Reader Acquainted with His Abode http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/tom.html from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)

Love , Heart

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

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: The Bride Wore Black Leather

“I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Reply to a letter sent to him on 17 July 1953 p. 39
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)

“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Source: Desert Solitaire

Tree , Help

“Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Everlasting

Love , Soul , Forgiveness

“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster

People , History , Parting

“I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

“My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death”

Anne Rice The Tale of the Body Thief

Source: The Tale of the Body Thief

Death

“Wander a whole summer if you can… time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West 
Context: Wander here a whole summer, if you can. Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled, and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy-laden year … give a month at least to this precious reserve. The time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal. Nevermore will time seem short or long, and cares will never again fall heavily on you, but gently and kindly as gifts from heaven.

Life , Time , Summer