E. B. White Quotes

I would hate to be immortal forever.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

I want to go on living after my death!

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery in it, because it cannot die anymore. You think it has no mystery because life has disappeared? No, it has no mystery because now it cannot die anymore. Death has disappeared, and with death automatically life disappears. Life is only one of the ways of death's expression.

You can not kill that which is already dead.

I used to want to be a vampire when I was young. It’d be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!

In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

"This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.