166 quotes found
“You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze.”
“The only true immortality lies in one's chi”
“Immortality goes through dead before all.”
“I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.”
“Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.”
“Who needs immortal strength when you've got weapons of mass destruction?”
“Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?”
“Why do you want to do this?" he asked curiously. "Why is this woman so important to you?"Saint-Germain blinked in surprise. "Have you ever loved anyone?" he asked."Yes," Tamnuz said cautiously, "I ...”
“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 t...”
“A book is the only immortality.”
“When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.”
“Something tells me that immortality is monstrous.”
“Every living is immortal in guise of mortal body.”
“The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.”
“It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves w...”
“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.”
“The love of every single one of my lives.”
