Boris Pasternak Quotes

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.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The living are more important than the dead.

I shall not altogether die.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

Who wants to live forever?

A diary is a way of hedging one’s bets against death.

Basketball will come and go, but the person you are will always remain.

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you or maybe just a couple of people, but you do what you can to make sure you're still around after you're gone.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

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

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

I've been thinking about forever

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.

Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.