Hannah Arendt Quotes

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

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

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

I shall not altogether die.

You live you die and death not ends it.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

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?

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.