Edward Young Quotes

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

Who wants to live forever?

Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.

I shall not altogether die.

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

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.

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

Immortality is the only thing which doesn't tolerate being postponed.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

I would like immortality.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

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

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

Wage war on death. Live for love.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.

It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'