Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

In a dream you are never eighty.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

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

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.

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

Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?' Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

Being immortal must have a lot of attractions. You can travel all over the world, see everything, do everything. But what happens if you are immortal and your friends and family are not? You are then destined to watch them age and die.

I've never really understood the desire to be immortal myself. The idea of both wanting to live forever in some form and wanting to stay young forever just sounds exhausting. It's one of those desires that people think they want but when you actually stop to think about what it actually means, it's really awful. One of the reasons that life is bearable is because it's going to end soon. One of the main concerns of fiction is how do we make a life of 85 years or so meaningful.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

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

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

You're too young to decide to live forever.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

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?

In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.