Nora Roberts Quotes

I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

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?

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

We want to live forever, and we're getting there.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

What makes people want to live forever? I don't think it's limited to our materialistic society of today. Even back to Christian times, they were writing about eternal life after death. So even in death there was a discussion of eternal life. I think this is a universal human desire. It's a horrible thought that this conscious being of ours - with our beautiful bodies - is one day going to decay and die. I don't think it so much has to do with the fear of meeting God, as it is just the thought that this all ends.

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

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

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

One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

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.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

All men desire to be immortal.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

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