Immortality Seeker/Quotes

"Do you fear death? Do you fear the punishment for your... transgressions? [Exhales smoke] One Hundred Years before the mast, that is what I offer yee."

- Davy Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

"Jones: Do you fear death?

Captain Jack:...You have no idea."

- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

"Anything less than immortality is a complete waste of time"

- Bender, Futurama

"''When we've been there ten thousand years

Bright shining as the sun

We've no less days

To sing God's praise

Than when we've first begun.''"

- Author unknown, commonly sung as the last verse of "Amazing Freaking Grace"

"Hudson: Growing old terrifies you, doesn't it?

Xanatos: (not-quite convincingly) Nothing terrifies me! Because nothing is beyond my ability to change."

- Gargoyles

"Voldemort: There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!

Dumbledore: You are quite wrong. Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness..."

- Harry Potter

"You don't cheat death. You whimper in fear of it."

- Bruce Wayne to Ra's al Ghul, Batman Beyond

"''I have heard the whispered tales of immortality

The deepest mystery

From an ancient book, I took a clue

I have scaled the mountaintops of eastern lands unknown

Time and Man alone

Searching for the lost Xanadu''"

- Rush, "Xanadu"