"Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality."
- Richard Rodríguez
"Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Nothing is forever. Except atoms."
- Dannika Dark
"Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross."
- Thomas Malory
"Hope is the last thing that dies.Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal."
- Vera Nazarian
"One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says the first disease is not terminal. Hope is built into the structure of our..."
- Brennan Manning
"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
- Thomas Campbell
"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]"
- Jorge Luis Borges
"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer ..."
- Terry Pratchett
"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"