Lord Byron Quotes

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

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

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

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

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Everything mortal has moments immortal

We die, and we do not die.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.