Quotes About Imortality

#1. How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel.

Greg Egan

#2. ( ... ) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.

Andrzej Wajda

#3. When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

Daniel Wallace

#4. I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. Great stories are sacred, whether they're true or not.

Maria Kvilhaug

#6. It's the pattern that matters, you see. Not the choice of building materials. Life is information, shaped by natural selection. Carbon's just fashion, nucleic acids mere optional accessories. Electrons can do all that stuff, if they're coded the right way. It's all just pattern.

Peter Watts

#7. A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations.

C.K. Webb

#8. Sabine pulled herself out of the water behind him, and glared up as she hung there. You spat on me.

Derek Landy

#9. Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

John Elway

#10. That the fighting was done, townspeople began to flood out of alleys and recesses, timidly making for the gate and - presumably - safety.

Robert Jordan

#11. You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.

Rick Yancey