Immortality/Quotes

IMMORTALITY IS ONLY A WORD. ALL THAT EXISTS CAN DIE. EVERY LIVING THING HAS A WEAPON AGAINST WHICH IT HAS NO DEFENSE. TIME. DISEASE. IRON. GUILT.

—Coaxmetal, Planescape: Torment

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.

—CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

—Edgar Lee Masters

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

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

—George Wald

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.

—Anne Smedley

I could not give them more life, only immortality. They didn't think it would be worth the price.

—Death, Soul Music

Be a vampire, or a ghost, or an immortal with a paint-by-numbers portrait in the rec room. Hell, even a brain-in-a-jar, in a pinch. Anything to avoid the Big Fire Below.

—Xykon, The Order of the Stick

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

—Susan Ertz

I am time enough at last. I am immortal. I am impervious to time, to hunger, to lethargy, to apathy. Only through eternity can you be saved, my friends.

—Brother Jeofrey Vita, The Electric Church

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

—Tom Holt, Ye Gods!

Rorschach: "You don't die, do you?"
Deadpool: "Nope."

—I'm a Marvel... and I'm a DC

Scully: All right. So how do I die?
Clyde Bruckman: You don't.

—The X-Files, "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"

That magic word that made it seem like no matter how little care you gave for the consequences, everything would somehow turn out over the course of eternity.
...Immortality.

—Fujiwara no Mokou, Cage in Lunatic Runagate

A man should live forever or die trying.

—Spider Robinson, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

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