Herman Melville Quotes

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

Death from sin no power can separate.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

Live as if you were eternal.

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!

Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

If you don't do any self-examinations or see a doctor ever, you'll live forever. That's how you do it. The diagnosis is what gets you. You just have a don't ask, don't tell policy with any and all bodily functions.

Only those who live forever can act like there's time to waste.

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

It is the fear of death - 24/7 in every shade of hospital white and doomsday black--that sells the pharmaceutical, political, financial, film, and food product promising to make good the wish to live forever.