History Quotes / ImmortalityImmorality

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->''"Every harvest moon I must drain the life force from victims lured to my island, to preserve my immortality."''
-->-- '''Simon Lenore''', ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland''

-->-- '''Clockwerk''', ''VideoGame/SlyCooper''

-->--'''Harry Bordon''', ''Film/CastADeadlySpell''

-->--'''Cultist''', ''Film/DriveAngry''

->'''Cardinal Alba''': Hello, Jack. From your expression, I assume you couldn't understand my presence here. I'm sorry to disillusion you, Jack. As one grows old, as death approaches, we begin to question... our fate. And I found mine lacking. "Is there a god? Is there a heaven?" I can no longer answer this for certain. I've witnessed no miracles, had no visions, and the prospect of death terrifies me. I've realized I've only one... alternative, and I made a bargain. With the devil if you wish.\\
'''Jack Crow''': You are truly a pile of dog shit, Cardinal.\\
'''Alba''': Yeah, that's right. That's correct, Jack, and I can live with that. After I have given what Valek wants, he will fulfill our bargain. And I will be transformed into one of his... new children. It's beautiful, isn't it?
-->--''Film/JohnCarpentersVampires''

-->--'''David''', ''Film/TheLostBoys''

-->-- '''[[EvilSorcerer The Old Man]],''' ''Ambitious Boys Like You,'' by Richard Kadrey

->Immortality didn't turn you into a monster. It merely showed you what kind of monster you already were.
-->-- ''The Raven Stratagem'', ''Literature/TheMachineriesOfEmpire''

->'''Buffy''': These people aren't gonna get changed, are they? The rest of them... they're just fodder.\\
'''Ford''': Technically, yes. But I'm in. [[ImmortalitySeeker I]] ''[[ImmortalitySeeker will]]'' [[ImmortalitySeeker become immortal]].\\
'''Buffy''': Well, I've got news for you, brain trust. That's not how it works. [[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil You die, and a demon sets up shop in your old house, and it walks, and it talks, and it remembers your life, but it's]] ''[[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil not]]'' [[MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil you]].\\
'''Ford''': It's better than nothing.\\
'''Buffy''': And your life is nothing? Ford, these people don't deserve to die!\\
'''Ford''': Well, neither do I! But apparently no one took that into consideration, [[SecretlyDying 'cause I'm still dying]]. I look good, don't I? Well, let me tell you something: I've got [[YourDaysAreNumbered maybe six months left]], and by then what they bury won't even ''look'' like me. It'll be bald and shriveled and it'll smell bad. No, I'm ''not'' going out that way.\\
[''Buffy turns away'']\\
'''Ford''': [[SarcasmMode I'm sorry, Summers. Did I screw up your righteous anger riff?]] Does the [[TheTopicOfCancer nest of tumors]] liquefying my brain kinda spoil the fun?\\
'''Buffy''': [''turns back to him''] I'm sorry. I had no idea. But what you're doing is ''still'' very wrong.\\
'''Ford''': Okay, well, you try vomiting for twenty-four hours straight because the pain in your head is so intense, and ''then'' we'll discuss the concept of right and wrong. These people are sheep. [[VampireVannabe They wanna be vampires]] 'cause they're lonely, miserable or bored. I don't have a choice.\\
'''Buffy''': You have a choice. You don't have a good choice, but you have a choice! [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse You're opting for mass murder here, and]] ''[[FreudianExcuseisNoExcuse nothing]]'' [[FreudianExcuseisNoExcuse you say is gonna make that okay!]]\\
'''Ford''': You think I need to justify myself to you?\\
'''Buffy''': I think this is all part of your little fantasy drama! Isn't this ''exactly'' how you imagined it? You tell me how you've suffered and [[SympathyForTheDevil I feel sorry for you]]. Well, I ''do'' feel sorry for you, and if those vampires come in here and start feeding, [[IllKillYou I'll kill you myself!]]

->''"You and the rest of your kind take blind comfort in the belief that we are monsters, that you could never do what we did. The key ingredient in the anti-agapic cannot be synthesized. It must be taken from living beings. For one to live forever, another one must die. You will fall upon one another like wolves. It will make what we did pale by comparison. The billions who live forever will be a testimony to my work, and the billions that are murdered to provide that immortality will be the continuance of that work. That will be my monument!"''
-->-- '''Jha'Dur''', ''Series/BabylonFive'', "Deathwalker".

->''"You are not yet ready for immortality."''
-->-- '''Ambassador Kosh''', ''Series/BabylonFive'' [[spoiler: after destroying Jha'Dur and her formula.]]

-->-- '''Music/JtMusic''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKF5glpf2Q Shadow Of]] [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil7 Myself]]

-->-- '''Sebastian Grayle,''' "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho030SeasonsOfFear Seasons of Fear]]", ''Audioplay/BigFinishDoctorWho''

->[[ImmortalitySeeker Some dream of being able to evade death's cold grip forever]]. The most obvious way to obtain more life [[LifeDrinker is to take it from others]]. All of us kill to live; our survival depends upon the deaths of countless plants and animals. However, in legends and stories, gaining a longer lifespan often requires the death of other humans. There are many ways to achieve this, but the [[MoralEventHorizon end result]] is the same: bodies in shallow graves or souls consigned to whatever afterlife might exist, their lives taken and used by another.

->'''Zouken Matou''': If there is a way to prolong your life and if it is within reach -- humans are creatures that will obtain it, even at the cost of the world itself!\\
'''Ilyasviel von Einzbern''': Then you're saying you'll sacrifice everyone else so you can stay alive?\\
'''Zouken Matou''': Of course. I would gladly kill everyone in the world if that would grant my wish.

->Immortality and technological progress are at your fingertips! And we will achieve it, no matter how many beings we have to sacrifice...
-->--'''[[spoiler:The Hospital Director]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Veins}}''

->Why are characters like [[Literature/TheVampireChronicles Lestat de Lioncourt]] and [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] held up as cautionary tales about the personal cost of immortality, anyway? In both stories, it’s an explicit plot point that they were already insufferable wankers before they became immortal.
-->--[[https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/155819687252/why-are-characters-like-lestat-de-lioncourt-and David J Prokopetz]]

'''Ford''': Well, neither do I! But apparently no one took that into consideration, 'cause I'm still dying. I look good, don't I? Well, let me tell you something: I've got [[YourDaysAreNumbered maybe six months left]], and by then what they bury won't even ''look'' like me. It'll be bald and shriveled and it'll smell bad. No, I'm ''not'' going out that way.\\

'''Ford''': [[SarcasmMode I'm sorry, Summers. Did I screw up your righteous anger riff? Does the nest of tumors liquefying my brain kinda spoil the fun?]]\\

'''Ford''': Okay, well, you try vomiting for twenty-four hours straight because the pain in your head is so intense, and ''then'' we'll discuss the concept of right and wrong. These people are sheep. They wanna be vampires 'cause they're lonely, miserable or bored. I don't have a choice.\\
'''Buffy''': You have a choice. You don't have a good choice, but you have a choice! You're opting for mass murder here, and ''nothing'' you say is gonna make that okay!\\

->'''Zouken Matou''': If there is a way to prolong your life and if it is within reach - humans are creatures that will obtain it, even at the cost of the world itself!\\

->''"You and the rest of your kind take blind comfort in the belief that we are monsters, that you could never do what we did. The key ingredient in the anti-agapic cannot be synthesized. It must be taken from living beings. For one to live forever, another one must die. You will fall upon one another like wolves. It will make what we did pale by comparison. The billions who live forever will be a testimony to my work, and the billions that are murdered to provide that immortality will be the continuance of that work. That will be my monument!"''
-->-- '''Jha'Dur''', ''Series/BabylonFive'', "Deathwalker".

->''"You are not yet ready for immortality."''
-->-- '''Ambassador Kosh''', ''Series/BabylonFive'' [[spoiler: after destroying Jha'Dur and her formula.]]