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I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since.
— Steve Jobs
It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.
— Melissa de la Cruz, The Van Alen Legacy
All it takes is a single moment.
— Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea
In the end it's not about how many breaths you took. In the end it's about the moments that took your breath away.
— Volksweisheitheit
When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Smiling at me ruefully, Luka scratched the back of his head. “Yeah, I guess you can.” He sauntered toward the sliding doors. “I’ll be right outside if you need me. Call if you get dizzy.”“You’ll probably just hear a very loud thump.”He frowned at my joke. “Not funny.”“Luka?” He stopped. “Thank you for keeping an eye on me.”“Just…” He tsked. “Just don’t scare me like that again.
— Kate Evangelista, Savor
I stare mesmerized at the photothat you have sent, pushing your child on the swing...a precious moment capturedand I am remindedof the distance separating usand how it seems like yesterdaywhen I was swinging you, dear son
— Vijaya Gowrisankar
After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.
— Joanna Ruocco, The Whitmire Case
It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials - I loved her, she maybe loved me, I was foolish, I suffered - it became vacuous and trite, meaningless to anyone else. In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.
— Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue
This is your time, right now, to get up and start moving. With motivation floating in the air around you, take a chance at your dreams. This moment may never come again. This motivation may be lost. This might be the last chance you have to change your life. Are you going to waste this chance? Are you willing to give up your dreams out of fear? Time is not going to stop. Time will keep leaving until, before you know it, your life is gone. This life is the only chance you get, this life will never restart. This is it. Is the way you are living right now worth your life?
— Avina Celeste
The moment of birth is a miracle .
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My life changed the moment I stopped blaming others for my failures.
— Dhaval Gajera, MAKE IT HAPPEN: with 30 greatest life lessons
Every life is precious. Please treasure each and every day, the present, the moment, and yourself.
— Ichigo Takano, Orange: The Complete Collection, Vol. 2
As for Gus, he had come to Haddan with no appreciation for the human race and no expectations of his fellow man. He was full ready to confront contempt; he'd been beleaguered and insulted often enough to have learned to ignore anything with a heartbeat. Still, every once in a while he made an exception, as he did with Carlin Leander. He appreciated everything about Carlin and lived for the hour when they left their books and sneaked off to the graveyard. Not even the crow nesting in the elm tree could dissuade him from his mission, for when he was beside Carlin, Gus acquired a strange optimism; in the light of her radiance the rest of the world began to shine. For a brief time, bad faith and human weakness could be forgotten or, at the very least, temporarily ignored. When it came time to go back to their rooms, Gus followed on the path, holding on to each moment, trying his best to stretch out time. Standing in the shadows of the rose arbor in order to watch Carlin climb back up the fire escape at St. Anne's, his heart ached. He could tell he was going to be devastated, and yet he was already powerless. Carlin always turned and waved before she stepped through her window and Gus Pierce always waved back, like a common fool, an idiot of a boy who would have done anything to please her.
— Alice Hoffman, The River King
You find your greatest joy the moment when you discover your purpose in life.
— Gift Gugu Mona
... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.
— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
Every moment counts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The charm is in waiting... The fragrance of a hope... The sublimity of a dream... The eloquence of a silence... The resplendence of darkness... The heat of winter... The cold of summer... The flashback of a memory... The unliving of a moment...
— Avijeet Das
All you have control ove is this moment. Chase it.
— Anna Akana, Surviving Suicide
Let the moment be memorable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All you have control over is this moment. Chase it.
— Anna Akana, Surviving Suicide
Enjoy this moment because it may not come again.
— Osho, Hsin Hsin Ming, the Book of Nothing: Discourses on the Faith Mind of Sosan
WOw, wow... so we are the same!?...Let's stop here as moment taken from your goldy life.
— Deyth Banger
Be it tart or sweet, always savor the moment. You'll not taste one just like it again.
— Erica Alex
The moment you breathe your first breath, you won.
— J.R. Rim
Turn your situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime. – Joyce Meyer
— Joyce Meyer
We all wish to live every moment of our life but its the death who gives us a surprise.
— Neymat Khan
Seeking answers to the questions is what draws us forward. When you have no more questions you can finally live in the satisfaction of the present moment. You have no more questions when you finally learn that love is always the answer.
— Kate McGahan
Always in the perfect moment in the best place. For one lesson more!
— Deyth Banger
This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.
— Osho, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
Sit down right now. Give me this moment. Write whatever’s running through you. You might start with “this moment” and end up writing about the gardenia you wore at your wedding seven years ago. That’s fine. Don’t try to control it. Stay present with whatever comes up, and keep your hand moving.
— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
And always, in our highly regularised way of life, he is obsessed by thoughts of themorrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous.
— Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual
But as men grow more industrialised and regimented, the kind of delight that is common in children becomes impossible to adults because they are always thinking of the next thing and cannot let themselves be absorbed in the moment. This habit of thinking of the ‘next thing’ is more fatal to any kind of aesthetic excellence than any other habit of mind that can be imagined, and if art, in any important sense, is to survive it will not be by the foundation of solemn academies, but by recapturing the capacity for wholehearted joys and sorrows which prudence and foresight have all but destroyed.
— Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual
You want to kill me??- So I guess that truth hurts, but why it hurts?Lie doesn't but truth does??How does it happen??So you go... you say "Well, well pretty nice made knife..." and you are looking it by moving it like rotate and such type of stuff and one moment you want to kill me. But why??Is it because I just "I lived" or it was because of "Listen" or it was because of "The Walk"??or what's the answer?
— Deyth Banger
One moment unstuck other stuck!
— Deyth Banger
One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
— Deyth Banger
The moment puts limits on the stuff...
— Deyth Banger
Make your decision, one moment you need to follow somebody for awesome stuff. But other you just add him to your favourites authors and you check out everyday his progress, awesome.
— Deyth Banger
One... moment you think it's the end. But it isn't, it's just the beginning.
— Deyth Banger
You rarely know, in the moment, when it's the last time you'll do something. Most of the time, the whole thing just sneaks away in the night, never to be seen or heard from again, not even sending back so much as a postcard to say hello.
— Michelle Cuevas, Beyond the Laughing Sky
My lifetime is my existence in a sacred moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Entirely taken up by the present, I could remember nothing; I had no distinct notion of myself as a person, nor had I the least idea of what had just happened to me. I did not know who I was, nor where I was; I felt neither pain, fear, nor anxiety. I watched my blood flowing as I might have watched a stream, without even thinking that the blood had anything to do with me. I felt throughout my whole being such a wonderful calm, that whenever I recall this feeling I can find nothing to compare with it in all the pleasures that stir our lives.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
One moment of incompetence can be fatal.
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
Yes, life is full of awkward moments! For example, that time you keep dazing off while staring at the same person you found yourself staring at five minutes ago. *gulp* So glad staring is still not illegal. Or, at least I'm glad for my own benefit.
— Mary Kate
We are what we are at this moment and no more.
— Aporva Kala, Alchemist of the East
Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.
— Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear
A moment in time has multiple moments.
— Khalid Masood
But what is your life? Can you see it? It vanishes at its own appearance. Moment by moment. Until it vanishes to appear no more. When you look at the world is there a point in time when the seen becomes the remembered? How are they separate? It is that which we have no way o show. It is that which is missing from our map and from the picture that it makes. And yet is all we have.
— Cormac McCarthy
They say there is a kind of flower that blooms only once a century, Then couldn't there be one that flowers only once every thousand years - or once every ten thousand years? Maybe there are and we just don't know it because today is itself that once-in-a-thousand-year moment.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Explore fully the sacred-moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So ' here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. (" Just for a moment ")
— Erik Pevernagie
I wriggle slowly out of the snug little cubby of blankets. Taking a shower. Letting the cool morning breeze that blows through the open windows gently caress my naked flesh. I savor the mild sun.For a while, i luxuriate in the feel of the soft towel against my skin and then, the breeze picks up and feels like a thousand miniature tongues licking the beads of water from my body. Today, no expectations. Lots of time for stretching and waking up slowly. The smell of fresh brewed coffee tickles my nose. Mornings like these make life so delicious – Nice!
— Anna Asche
But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment.
— David Levithan, Invisibility
A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...
— Stuti Dhyani
This moment is history.
— J.R. Rim, Write like no one is reading 2
She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
It was the most fleeting time of day, and maybe that was why it was her favorite. Because if you blinked, if you closed your eyes or turned your head for even the briefest of moments, you might just miss it. And like most things in life, the transient, fleeting nature of the moment made it all the more special.
— Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist
I love it when people tell me you can’t. For the very moment they say you can’t, they challenge the “I can” that lies deep down within me, and the result is always positive. The I can in me rises up to the challenge and gets the job done.
— Bien Sufficient
Cherish the moment and the time in which you live.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
There is always a new begining...Doors are unlimited, always open, if one closes and that moment the other opens..
— Vandana Agarwal
When I turned to look at you, I was afraid to move again—the moment was just too beautiful to be lost.
— David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
Sublime moments refracted,Even if only for seconds,Caught forever in your soul.
— Scott Hastie
Every moment is important, like the moment that takes away your life.
— Debasish Mridha
Moments – We all are made-up of moments
— Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love
When we realize every moment is sacred, we understand that every footstep is sacred, too.
— Molly Friedenfeld
If we estimate people's responsibility according to the time when they were left exceptionally on their own, then today's generation is a stubborn crowd of hopeless peers.
— Alexander Zalan, Inspiration Per Moment
The most important moments in life happen without an appointment.
— Luis a R Branco, Verdade Na Pratica: Textos Selecionados
... it had arrested for all eternity the moment which it had been trying to make pass more quickly.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
CELEBRATION is very sexiest moment
— m. shahid nadeem
I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D. Stroube (Rival: Prelude to the Mirage Chronicles.)
— J.D. Stroube
Will you destroy something in order to make it beautiful?Will you avoid something in order to fall in love with it?Will you sacrifice something just so that you get it?Will you maintain distance from someone in order to get him close?We often make these mistakes.Life is short, every second counts, every moment is precious.Live at, live for and live always in present, for thats what you have right now with you, who knows what will tomorrow bring.
— Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.
— Harley King, Mother, Don't Lock Me In That Closet!
You are the forward edge of life's advancement
—  in this moment in time you are the finest expression of life's brilliance.
When everything all in a moment comes together, surprisingly perfect, it doesn’t prove there’s a loving God; but if there is, isn’t it perfect when all in a moment, God proves how surprisingly He loves?
— Geoffrey Wood, The God Cookie
Death lasts only a moment, but we think about it every moment. (La mort ne dure qu'un instant, - Mais on y pense chaque instant)
— Charles de Leusse
A Moment, however small, defines an expression.
— Sagar Gosavi
The moments of déjà vu were coming more frequently, now. Moments would stutter and hiccup and falter and repeat. Sometimes whole mornings would repeat. Once I lost a day. Time seemed to be breaking down entirely.
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.
— Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Too many people never catch tomorrow as they let go of today. Capture the precious now instead of holding onto the hope of tomorrow.
— Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
Also, Willie, I dig telling the truth. Words can be twisted but a photo never lies.Sutton laughs.What’s funny? Photographer says.Nothing. Except—that’s pure horseshit kid. I can’t think of anything that lies more than a photo. In fact every photo is a dirty stinking lie because it’s a frozen moment—and time can’t be frozen. Some of the biggest lies I’ve ever run across have been photos. Some of them were of me.
— J.R. Moehringer, Sutton
If we always livein constant fearthen we might missthe beauty of the momentright now, right here.
— S. Tarr, Love, Adventure and Other Noble Quests
There will always be a moment to feel sorry for the mistakes, but indeed it is not today.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I grow up relying upon on my own shoulders even from the moment they were too weak to hold me back, but I knew it is the only to become a tough guy.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Imagine for a moment that life has given you everything you dream about, but you won’t be happy, because happiness comes when you pursue your dreams, otherwise it is not your dream, but charity.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Who says that money don't matter?If you are Rich all the world will know about you, if you are poor no one give a crap about what it's happening to you!"Life It's Short, enjoy this moment.
— Ebelsain Villegas
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
— Eminem
How did you know? That she wasn't the one for him?" Now he's staring at his hands, slowing rubbing them together. "They just didn't have that . . . natural magic. You know? It never seemed easy." My voice grows tiny. "Do you think things have to be easy? For it to work?" Cricket's head shoots up, his eyes bulging as they grasp my meaning. "NO. I mean, yes, but . . . sometimes there are ... extenuating circumstances. That prevent it from being easy. For a while. But then people overcome those ...circumstances . . . and . . .""So you believe in second chances?" I bite my lip. "Second, third, fourth. Whatever it takes. However long it takes. If the person is right," he adds.If the person is . . . Lola?"This time, he holds my gaze. "Only if the other person is Cricket."Chapter 27Pg 273
— Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door
Is that a no?" I said. "No. I mean.." He struggled for the smile again. "I'm just waiting for the punch line. Something about making it date so I need to pay. Or you expecting flowers. Or.." He trailed off."There isn't a punch line," I said.I rose onto my knees and inched over, in front of him. Then I stopped about a foot away."No punch line, Daniel," I said. "I'm asking if you'll go out with me."He didn't answer. Just reched out, his hand sliding between my hair and face, pulling me toward him and..And he kissed me.His lips touched mine, tentatively, still unsure, and I eased closer, my arms going around his neck. He kissed me for real then, a long kiss that I felt in the bottom of my soul, a click, some deep part of me saying, "Yes, this is it."Even when the kiss broke off, it didn't end. It was like coming to the surface for a quick gasp of air, then plunging back down again, finding that sweet spot again, and holding onto it for as long as we could. Finally it tapered off, and we were lying on the picnic blanket, side by side, his hand on my hip, kissing slower now, with more breaks for air. until I said, "We should have done that sooner."He smiled, a lazy half smile, and he just looked at me for a moment, our gazes locked, lying there in drowsy happiness, before he said, "I think now's just fine." And he kissed me again, slower and softer now, as we rested there, eyes half closed."So, about Saturday, did you ask me?" he said after a minute, "Because I'm pretty sure that means yo're paying.""Nope. You were imaging it. Considering how you eat, the meal bill is all yours. But I will spring for the movie. And bring you flowers."He chuckled. "Will you?""Yep, a dozen pink roses, which you'll have to carry all night or risk offending me.""And what happens if I offend you?""You don't get any more of this."I leaned in and kissed him again. And we stayed out there, on the blanket, as the sun fell, talking and kissing mostly, just being together. We had a long road ahead of us, and I knew it wasn't going to be easy. But I had everything I wanted-everything I needed-and I'd get through it just fine. We all would.
— Kelley Armstrong, The Rising
How can it feel so perfect with someone one second, but then the next second everything’s suddenly all wrong?
— Susan Colasanti
Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams.
— Grigoris Deoudis
Every moment we are new and full of infinite possibility as we are part of ALL.
— Jay Woodman
You don't need a time machine to live in the moment.
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
A moment can be left inside the memory of time.
— Munia Khan
He didn't want to get his hopes up, but he also refused to be a pessimist about this moment. Everything could go either way.
— Adam P. Knave, Stays Crunchy in Milk
Every moment is an experience.
— Jake Roberts
Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.
— Taylor Swift
Just for a moment, amid all the bad stuff, this was a happy place again.
— Caroline Green, Dark Ride
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.
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
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.
— Bob Marley
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.
— Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
The day will comeWhen my body no longer existsBut in the lines of this poemI will never let you be aloneThe day will comeWhen my voice is no longer heardBut within the words of this poemI will continue to watch over youThe day will comeWhen my dreams are no longer knownBut in the spaces found in the letters of this poemI will never tired of looking for you
— Sapardi Djoko Damono
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.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
The love of every single one of my lives.
— Alyson Noel, Blue Moon
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
— Abraham Lincoln
Ellie, would you frolic in the land of forever with me?
— Rae Hachton, Pretty In Black
‎And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?
— Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.
— Simon R. Green, The Bride Wore Black Leather
One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
— Albert Camus, The Fall
A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal...
— Bertrand Russell
I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.
— Shan Sa, Empress
What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
— Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress
I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
Time is not your enemy, forever is.
— Chris Avellone
Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe he is dead.
— H.L. Mencken
It's while it's being lived that life is immortal, while it's still alive. Immortality is not a matter of more or less time, its not really a question of immortality but of something else that remains unknown. It's as untrue to say it's without beginning or end as to say it begins and ends with the life of the spirit, since it partakes both of the spirit and of the pursuit of the void.
— Marguerite Duras, The Lover
Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of the longcenturies falls upon our imperishable being, like water slow drippingon a diamond that it cannot wear, till they be born anew forgetful ofus, and again sink from our helpless arms into the void unknowable.
— H. Rider Haggard, Ayesha: The Return of She
Even that. What is the point in living forever, if it is not with the woman I love?
— Michael Scott, The Necromancer
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
— Herb Caen
All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.
— Audrey Auden, Realms Unreel
I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.
— Colin Thompson, How To Live Forever
Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.
— Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
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.
— Clare Morgan, A Book for All and None
The only true immortality lies in one's chi
— Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters
Immortality goes through dead before all.
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
They can only kill us once.
— Immaculée Ilibagiza, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.
— John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
— Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
Who needs immortal strength when you've got weapons of mass destruction?
— J.A. Saare, The Renfield Syndrome
Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
— William Wordsworth
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 had a consort once, Inanna...""But did you love her? Truly love her?"The Green Man remained silent."Did she mean more to you than life itself?" Saint-Germain persisted."They do not love that do not show their love," Shakespeare murmured very softly.The French immortal stepped closer to the Elder. "I love my Jeanne," he said simply. "I must go to her.""Even though it will cost you everything?" Tamnuz persisted, as if the idea was incomprehensible."Yes. Without Joan, everything I have is worthless.""Even your immortality?""Especially my immortality." Gone were the banter and the jokes. This was a Saint-Germain whom neither Shakespeare nor Palamedes had ever seen before. "I love her," he said,
— Michael Scott
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 to achieve after all. Why then does he persist in inscribing marks on paper, in the faint hope that people not yet born will take the trouble to decipher them?
— J.M. Coetzee, Summertime
A book is the only immortality.
— Rufus Choate
When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking.
— Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
Something tells me that immortality is monstrous.
— Floriano Martins
I jumped between them holding my hands up in front of me to stop the onslaught. We would all sit down and figure this out as rational adults. We’d been adults for a century at least, and it should not be a problem. It appeared to be a problem.
— Jessica Fortunato, The Sin Collector
I’m an immortal. But I don’t want to be one anymore. Or rather, I don’t want to be an immortal stuck in a mortal world anymore. There is something greater out there for me, but in order to get it I need someone to put an end to my life in this world.
— Ramsey Isler, The Remortal
Every living is immortal in guise of mortal body.
— Akshmala Sharma
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.
— P.D. James, Time To Be In Earnest: A Fragment Of Autobiography
Immortality entails not invincibility.
— Ahmed Mostafa
He retrieved the words from somewhere long forgotten. They floated through the foggy recesses of his mind, plucked from the dark and released into the air like a dove.
— R. W. Patterson, Dark Night of the Soul: In the darkest of moments...a sacrifice to end a life...a rescue to save a soul.
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 while there's still time.
— W.S. Merwin
The efficacy of TA-65 is incremental. It does seem to stop telomere shortening and minutely lengthen telomeres, but not in the profound way that future drugs will. One natural compound that may prove more powerful and more affordable may be available by the time this book is published. You can find updates on it (not allowed to give a link) Still, TA-65 us currently being used by the authors of this book, and Dr. Woynarowski is one of the physicians who is licensed to distribute it.
— Michael Fossel
Believe me, there’s nothing worse than being both immortal and intelligent. Imagine the boredom! Plus you start to ask questions, and the worst thing about questions is that sometimes, they have answers.
— Charlie Jane Anders, Margot and Rosalind
Your real name is a mortal name. Now you need one that is immortal, the one that takes the high stage and plays above the rest. You can't be immortal and mortal at the same time.
— Keith Buckley, Scale: A Novel
I don’t need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp.
— C.M.  Hayden, The Stars That Form Us
We who live forever can know no courage, nor do we love enough to give our lives.
— Katherine Arden
If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.
— Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To...
If you’ve ever studied mortal age cartoons, you’ll remember this one. A coyote was always plotting the demise of a smirking long-necked bird. The coyote never succeeded; instead, his plans always backfired. He would blow up, or get shot, or splat from a ridiculous height.And it was funny.Because no matter how deadly his failure, he was always back in the next scene, as if there were a revival center just beyond the edge of the animation cell.I’ve seen human foibles that have resulted in temporary maiming or momentary loss of life. People stumble into manholes, are hit by falling objects, trip into the paths of speeding vehicles.And when it happens, people laugh, because no matter how gruesome the event, that person, just like the coyote, will be back in a day or two, as good as new, and no worse—or wiser—for the wear.Immortality has turned us all into cartoons.
— Neal Shusterman, Scythe
Outside the rain finally began to fall, surging in fits and starts. “I love the way it rains here,” he told her. “It reminds me that some forces of nature can never be entirely subdued. They are eternal, which is a far better thing to be than immortal.
— Neal Shusterman, Scythe
If you're in your 20s now, by the time you're 75, you'll be able to live 'til you're 150. By the time you're 150 you'll be able to live 'til you're 300. See you at your 1000th birthday party!
— Neil A. Hogan
Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.
— Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah
The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Immortals must always give humans one thing! Either fear and terror! Or beauty!!
— Ken Akamatsu, UQ Holder 8
Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.
— John Fowles, The Magus
Immortality doesn't last nearly as long as you think. Even our souls die in the end.
— Jaxy Mono, The Book of Dubious Beasts
Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?
— RyLee Harrison
Moments… there are always moments where a decision has to be made. In mortal life there is always a choice. One road or another? The ultimate choose your own adventure story. In the clans, there is only one option, and that is to do whatever your clan’s oracle tells you to do.
— Kim Cormack, Enlightenment
He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. He pressed her to him. She understood that he loved her and this suddenly filled her with sadness. She felt sad that he loved her so much, and she felt like crying.
— Milan Kundera, Immortality
Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it.
— Neel Burton
The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect joys of this world satisfy his heart. Man alone, of all created beings, displays a natural contempt of existence, and yet a boundless desire to exist; he scorns life, but he dreads annihilation. These different feelings incessantly urged his soul to the contemplation of a future state, and religion directs his musings thither. Religion, then, is simply another form of hope; and it is no less natural to the human heart than hope itself.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history, and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration. A face is like a name. It must have happened some time toward the end of my childhood: I kept looking in the mirror for such a long time that I finally believed that what I was seeing was my self. My recollection of this period is very vague, but I know that the discovery of the self must have been intoxicating. Yet there comes a time when you stand in front of a mirror and ask yourself: this is my self? And why? Why did I want to identify with this? What do I care about this face? And at that moment everything starts to crumble. Everything starts to crumble.
— Milan Kundera, Immortality
But me They cannot touch, Old age and death. The strange And ignominious end of old Dead folk!
— Adelaide Crapsey, Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
When I was girl by Nilus stream I watched the deserts stars arise; My lover, he who dreamed the Sphinx, Learned all his dreaming from eyes. I bore in Greece a burning name, And I have been in Italy Madonna to a painter-lad, And mistress to a Medici. And have you heard (and I have heard) Of puzzled men with decorous mien, Who judged - the wench knew far too much - And burnt her on the Salem green?
— Adelaide Crapsey, Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.
— Gail Carson Levine, Ever
She'll be waiting for me. Never before had he wanted immortality so badly.
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
I have accepted that the world is a perpetually moving beacon, with a never-ending supply of new possibilities. And there is always room for second chances when you have eternity.
— R.R. Washburn, Departed: A Dead Man Does Tell Tales
As time passes, the cast and crew go the way of all flesh, though their celluloid echoes remain--walking, talking, fighting, fucking. After enough time, every person you see onscreen will have died, transformed through the magic of cinema into a collection of visible memories: light on a screen, pixels on a videotape, information on a DVD. We bring them back every time we start a movie, and they live again, reflected in our eyes. It's a cruel sort of immortality, I guess, though it probably beats the alternative.
— Gemma Files, Experimental Film
She awoke knowing what she had been dreaming about. She was a deer in the headlights to his grinning face. In those first moments before she was fully awakened she hadn’t had time to hide her true feelings. He’d read them loud and clear. This was the moment that would start the seductive tango. There was one giant problem. Kayn could not dance her way out of a paper bag.
— Kim Cormack, Enlightenment
The days that passed had begun to melt together into weeks and months, creating a twisted mosaic of memories in her mind. Her dreams travelled a tortuous path between what had actually happened, and what could have been.
— Kim Cormack, Enlightenment
During his sweet sleep, there was an angelic creature and in her eyes a look of joyous elation that filled Kevin’s mind with anticipation of her possible existence in the real world. This freckle-faced vision with her wild mane of untamed blonde curls nightly left an unexplainable ache in his soul. In his dreams, she would appear to him as a mirage of hope. He could feel the love in her heart, for it seeped through her very essence into the air between them. She lay next to him in the grass as they quietly observed the sky above. Her hand seemed to be always just out of his reach. Kevin wanted to hold her hand so badly it was torturous. Her hand was just about touching his but not quite. Then her fingers brushed a path across his fingertips as if to say in the exquisite beauty of the moment, “I will always be right here.
— Kim Cormack, Enlightenment
He would wake up knowing that as long as he was capable of having such beautiful dreams, a part of him must still be good.
— Kim Cormack, Enlightenment
, “How can one mock these flamingo wine glasses. When, they are so obviously awesome.
— Kim Cormack, Enlightenment
She had always enjoyed the warm, calming feeling of the sand. It slipped as a silken scarf of liquid sunshine across the surface of her skin. Kayn took one hand and ran it over the surface of the sand, and it shifted as though it had been moved by a light breeze without her hand making contact. Her life now had no room for feet being firmly planted on the ground. She had to allow her mind to take off in flight and accept the impossible. She had to embrace life as a toddler. In a child's world, every breath of life is a mystery; everything had the possibility of being magic.
— Kim Cormack, Enlightenment
She smiled as she imagined that the sun’s last rays were flames from a distant dragon.
— Kim Cormack, Enlightenment
The shade of the sky changed ever so slightly in her peripheral vision. She raised her eyes from her toes to the horizon, to witness the sun’s last dance in the daylight as it began to descend slowly, magically into the distant sea. Exotic pastel hues of orange and fuchsia were now painted across the fading expression of the day. It was a calm yet isolating vision to take into her heart, for it made her feel exceedingly small in the grand scheme of things.
— Kim Cormack, Enlightenment
Hermes, we love you," Hades said, "but you rarely do as you're told, and you always do as you wish, and I haven't the slightest idea what you'd do with an immortality fruit, but I'm sure it would be both creative and disastrous.
— Molly Ringle, Underworld's Daughter
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
— Emily Dickinson
…while men and women perished, and cities fell, symbols endured, grew. Symbols were immortal.
— Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead
This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk.""Maybe both of us have got a piece of him," said Lee. Maybe that's what immortality is.
— John Steinbeck
Beyond that door lies an unknown world...where we can become immortal if we choose
— Linda Lappin, The Etruscan
O I will accompany the windUntil the chainOf my white bonesDrifts like fine sandAnd I become compassing.I become the
— John Fairfax, Adrift on the Star Brow of Taliesin
Well, the death of the body is the flight of the arrow. It's makin' a straight line for the brain. No dodgin' it not for anyone. People have't die, the body has't fall. Time is hurlin' that arrow forward. And yet, like I was sayin' thought goes on subdividin' that time for ever and ever. The paradox becomes real. The arrow never hits.In other words, immortality.
— Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters.
— Milan Kundera, Immortality
You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!
— Ambrose Bierce, A Cynic Looks at Life by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Classics
The ‘Elves’ are ‘immortal’, at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and justify you, The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all, He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they, You shall be fully glorified in them.
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.
— Tennessee Williams
It was as hard to comprehend that your life would never end as it was to comprehend that it would.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.
— M. Fethullah Gülen, Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief
I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and the future are one, occurring in a simultaneous time... Quite literally the future is now, and even on this planet we can shape our 'nows' by our actions. That is why it is so important to prepare not only for the rest of our lives but for all our lives to come--for immortality.
— brian L. weiss, m.d.
A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life
— Dean Cavanagh
Our heads will happen cold when this is found.
— Tony Harrison
It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.
— Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories
Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,Their names without a record are forgot,Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dustNor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust;But he whose name is graved in the white stoneShall last and shine when all of these are gone.
— Anne Bradstreet
Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.
— Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home
You may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that for a moment, never dying? Never fading? Existing, just as you are, for all time?
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Money does not guarantee immortality.
— Abigail Barnette, The Girlfriend
For a life where diamonds really are forever
— Bethany Anne Miller, Forever Stuck
I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.
— Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever
...love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.
— Dean Koontz, Shadowfires
What is life without death, Beneficent? You of all people can answer that question. A never-ending orgy of emptiness that you stuff with meaningless activity. Everything is disposable, including your relationships--especially your your relationships.
— Rick Yancey, Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales
That which endures forever
—  it is released from nebulous name-giving.
Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor and as Zhirem’s cup was sure, so was his joylessness… to die is a fear, but to live is a fear, also.
— Tanith Lee, Death's Master
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?
— Karen Essex, Stealing Athena
He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden? Who would want to give up an unblemished state of immortality for the insipid apple?
— Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit
Immortality, thou art a chimerical bridesmaid of life.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
Sometimes we have to go wrong to go right - Acheron
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Why love has to intense? Women's love isn't. It is a male contribution to a relationship. What does a woman contribute? Children continuity- intentional immortality.
— Aporva Kala, Life... Love... Kumbh...
So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.
— Dan Brown, Inferno
. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
A body can't live without a heart. And I can't live without you.
— Jessica Khoury, Origin
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.
— William Faulkner
I think of the five generations it will take before [Mr. Perfect]'s born, and I want to scream. I want someone now. I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them.
— Jessica Khoury, Origin
Love is nothing more than elevated levels of dopamine, nor-epinephrine, and other chemicals. But the way Uncle Antionio's face lights up as they dance... I wonder what it would be like to feel that. To let the chemicals of romance take over for just a little while. Then I remember that I am immortal and that my body doesn't work like everyone else's. Who knows if I can even feel love?
— Jessica Khoury, Origin
Of all the elements in the periodic table, not a single one is indestructible.
— Marty Rubin
It slowly dawns on me what it is, the sensation that has bridged the gap between how I saw the world yesterday and how I see it today. It compensates for my lost keenness and even makes everything around me a little brighter. Hope.
— Jessica Khoury, Origin