Emily Dickinson Quotes

I would hate to be immortal forever.

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

I've been thinking about forever

"I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation".

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.

At most, you will live a hundred years on earth, but you will spend forever in eternity.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Who wants to live forever?

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

It's only forever... Not long at all.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

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!

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

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 am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

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

a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.