Immortality Quotes
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![J.G. Ballard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615508740i/7010931._UY200_CR15,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![J.K. Rowling](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1596216614i/1077326._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
![H. Rider Haggard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298296700i/4633123.jpg)
“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
― She: A History of Adventure
― She: A History of Adventure
![Mikhail Bulgakov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651627966i/3873._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― The Master and Margarita
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!”
― The Master and Margarita
![Carl Sagan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1475953320i/10538._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.”
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
― Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
![John Lennon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207677340i/19968._UX200_CR0,19,200,200_.jpg)
“We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...”
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![Isabel Allende](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1341879973i/2238._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
― Eva Luna
― Eva Luna
![Bob Marley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207771636i/25241._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”
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![Jorge Luis Borges](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1652029755i/500._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
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[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
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![Jaachynma N.E. Agu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1537953361i/5040334._UY200_CR41,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”
― The Prince and the Pauper
― The Prince and the Pauper
![Marcel Proust](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1649882562i/233619._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.”
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![Madeline Miller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1322861610i/176372._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg)
“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
― Circe
― Circe
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Color of Magic
― The Color of Magic
![Sapardi Djoko Damono](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207213699i/167915._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“The day will come
When my body no longer exists
But in the lines of this poem
I will never let you be alone
The day will come
When my voice is no longer heard
But within the words of this poem
I will continue to watch over you
The day will come
When my dreams are no longer known
But in the spaces found in the letters of this poem
I will never tired of looking for you”
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When my body no longer exists
But in the lines of this poem
I will never let you be alone
The day will come
When my voice is no longer heard
But within the words of this poem
I will continue to watch over you
The day will come
When my dreams are no longer known
But in the spaces found in the letters of this poem
I will never tired of looking for you”
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![Irvin D. Yalom](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1238455380i/909675._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
![John Muir](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1398092241i/5297._UY200_CR40,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― My First Summer in the Sierra
― My First Summer in the Sierra
![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Hearts in Atlantis
― Hearts in Atlantis
![Anton Chekhov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1650587503i/5031025._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1517864008i/3190._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
![Madeline Miller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1322861610i/176372._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg)
“But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.”
― Circe
― Circe
![Russell Brand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429657779i/884168._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
![James Dean](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1246280916i/269186._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.”
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![Gregory Maguire](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1319068553i/7025._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.”
― A Lion Among Men
― A Lion Among Men
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