May Sarton Quotes

A book is the only immortality.

I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.

I shall not altogether die.

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

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

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

I would like immortality.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.

Maybe everyone lives forever. Or maybe, like in the animated movie 'Coco,' only those whose stories get told by the living definitely do. It takes a story worth telling.

Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.