Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

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.

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

Art is longer than life.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

In a dream you are never eighty.

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.

I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

I've been thinking about forever

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.

Think about how rare it is that you exist at all. Also think about time this way: If something exists, even for a second, then forever in the future that thing “existed”, and forever in the past that thing “was going to exist”. So to even be conscious for a millisecond is a kind of immortality, but you have more than a millisecond. You have minutes. Hours. Months. A year? Years! This is a gift.

Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.