History Quotes / WhoWantsToLiveForever

->''"What is the one thing that could never, ever, ever, ''ever'' in a million years get boring? If you said [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} 'busting ghosts']], tragically, you'd be wrong. Was almost all the way through the 'W's when the bloom came off that rose. [[LiteraryMashups Heathcliff was defending Moonbase]] Literature/WutheringHeights from the crafty poltergeist when I realized exploring the vast realm of pure intellect is... boring. It's boring! You know what I'd really like to do? [[SenseLossSadness Like to scratch my nose.]]"''
-->-- '''[[BrainUploading Computer]] Cave Johnson''', ''VideoGame/Portal2''

->''"I've been thinking: What if [[BeleagueredAssistant Greg]] was right? What if injecting my consciousness into a computer robbed me of an eternal reward? Spiritually speaking."''\\
[short sequence of beeps]\\
''"Alright, I just read up on it. Stumbled on [[BaitAndSwitch a book about a fella who lived thousands of years ago. Sacrificed himself to save mankind. Went by the name of]] [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hercules]]. Destroyed all the world's monsters so humans'd be safe, then went to Olympus for his trouble. Damn it!'' Death ''was my monster! And I killed it. Where's my Olympus? Unless...'' Aperture ''was the monster. [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Aperture, and everybody inside it -- Holy Hercules!]] I just thought of [[DeadlyGas something]]. Keep testing. [[ImpliedDeathThreat Or don't. Doesn't matter.]] I'll be back.''
-->-- '''Computer Cave Johnson''' again, ''VideoGame/Portal2''

->''"I've been thinking: What if [[BeleagueredAssistant Greg]] was right? What if injecting my consciousness into a computer robbed me of an eternal reward? Spiritually speaking."'' [short sequence of beeps] ''"Alright, I just read up on it. Stumbled on [[BaitAndSwitch a book about a fella who lived thousands of years ago. Sacrificed himself to save mankind. Went by the name of]] [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hercules]]. Destroyed all the world's monsters so humans'd be safe, then went to Olympus for his trouble. Damn it!'' Death ''was my monster! And I killed it. Where's my Olympus? Unless...'' Aperture ''was the monster. [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Aperture, and everybody inside it -- Holy Hercules!]] I just thought of [[DeadlyGas something]]. Keep testing. [[ImpliedDeathThreat Or don't. Doesn't matter.]] I'll be back.''

->''"I've been thinking: What if [[BeleagueredAssistant Greg]] was right? What if injecting my consciousness into a computer robbed me of an eternal reward? Spiritually speaking.'' [short sequence of beeps] ''Alright, I just read up on it. Stumbled on a book about [[BaitAndSwitch a fella who lived thousands of years ago. Sacrificed himself to save mankind. Went by the name of]] [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hercules]]. Destroyed all the world's monsters so humans'd be safe, then went to Olympus for his trouble. Damn it!'' Death ''was my monster! And I killed it. Where's my Olympus? Unless...'' Aperture ''was the monster. [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Aperture, and everybody inside it -- Holy Hercules!]] I just thought of [[DeadlyGas something]]. Keep testing. [[ImpliedDeathThreat Or don't. Doesn't matter.]] I'll be back.''

-->-- ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP''

->'''[[Alucard Alucard:]]''' I'm a 300-year-old vampire. We're opposites.\\

-->--''VideoGame/{{Siren}}''

'''SCP-1440':'' [[GoneHorriblyRight Win]].

->''Death? What is Death? It is the natural state of all things. It is life that is the aberration. It is life that should be feared, for it can go by with our work undone, it can be wasted away in failure and indolence. Death is to be embraced.''

->''Immortality is one of those things that ''seems'' cool, but... it's probably not for everyone.''

->''To tell the truth, I think I had enough of afterlives as it is - this one has been pretty purgatorial. Almost fifty years floating in supercooled jelly like some medical specimen, thoughts creeping like rats through cramped silicon corridors of machines trapped behind video screens and camera systems. Never sleeping, never resting, never ceasing to think about the world I no longer belong to. No, if this is a taste of the afterlife, I think simple oblivion will do nicely.''

->''I was infected with the swamp's poison, and I made a pact with the Tree out of fear. So now I give it knowledge, and in exchange, it keeps me one step away from the grave. I wish it would just let me go, but a pact made cannot be broken.''

->In the world that I knew, aging was a thing to fear: a herald of coming death. I'm sure that many people must have felt they would give anything to never grow old. But in a world where exactly that has happened, everyone has realized the truth. Sooner or later, an endless life, without goals and without change, becomes mired in apathy.

->''Even death is a luxury I do not have!''

->'''{{Alucard}}''': I'm a 300-year-old vampire. We're opposites.\\
'''[[ShrinkingViolet Tavia]]''': Then, make me a vampire.\\
'''Alucard''': No way!\\
'''Tavia''': Why not? Can't you turn me into a vampire?\\
'''Alucard''': Nobody wants to live forever.\\
'''Tavia''': Oh, please. Please make me a vampire.

->''[[BadassBoast Death comes for all! Except me.]]''

->''To most, life is fleeting. To me, it is quagmire.''

->'''[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Ruby]]''': I don't want to grow up, Hiro! I don't want eternal life! I want to be with you forever! I don't want to be alone!\\
'''[[TheHero Hiro]]''': Ruby... Don't you understand? it's up to you to decide whether you'll be alone or not!\\
'''Ruby''': What do you mean?\\
'''Hiro''': Didn't you hear Nall? Every day we spend together, we're making more memories. And those memories will always brighten your heart and take away your fear. You've lived with me since I was a little boy, Ruby. And you've spent plenty of time with our new friends. Your heart must be bursting with memories by now, Ruby! And as long as you have those memories, we will always be with you. You'll never be alone.\\
'''Ruby''': I always pretended not to hear the voice inside of me. The voice that kept asking when I was going to grow up. I knew that I would have to become an adult to protect our world... but I didn't want to lose my friends. So I ignored that voice, no matter how loud it spoke. But now I know that I won't lose you. I won't be alone. I'll always be with all of you, whether it's in the real world or in my heart. I won't ignore that voice anymore. I'll let it tell me what I need to do..

->''Eternity... it hurts... it really hurts...\\

We tried our best! In the rain. In the wind. In the storm. Even when our companions died, [[SoleSurvivor we kept fighting.]] But the [[ForeverWar eternal war]]... Our eternal pain... [[LaughingMad Hahaha...]] The eternal pain! It screamed at us! [[StrawNihilist It told us there was nothing of value to protect in this world... The world had no meaning!]] Hahaha! It SCREAMED at us! [[CryLaughing HAHAHA!]] This pain! This sadness! This DESPERATION! YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT!!''

->Wreck of Sugawara, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor who wished for immortality]].

->''[[AC:When a thing [[ImmortalitySeeker seals itself against its own destruction]], it merely dies a different death.]]''

->'''VideoGame/{{Sam|AndMax}}''': Did you know that there are jellyfish that can live forever?\\
'''[[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros Brock]]''': Yeah, but who wants to be an immortal jellyfish?\\
'''Sam''': I guess that would be pretty dull. Drift, drift, drift, sting. Drift, drift, drift, sting.\\
'''[[VideoGame/Borderlands2 Claptrap]]''': You know, as long as I get fresh batteries every couple hundred years, I'm pretty sure that I'm effectively immortal. That's really depressing!\\
'''Sam''': I wouldn't worry about it. The way you're going, I'm pretty sure someone'll put you out of your misery long before the ennui of immortality kicks in.\\
'''Claptrap''': Promise?\\
'''Brock''': Trust me, I'll pull the trigger myself.

->''What is the one thing that could never, ever, ever, ''ever'' in a million years get boring? If you said [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} "busting ghosts"]], tragically, you'd be wrong. Was almost all the way through the "W"s when the bloom came off that rose. [[LiteraryMashups Heathcliff was defending Moonbase]] Literature/WutheringHeights from the crafty poltergeist when I realized exploring the vast realm of pure intellect is... boring. It's boring! You know what I'd really like to do? [[SenseLossSadness Like to scratch my nose.]]''

->''[[Film/{{Gladiator}} "What we do in life echoes in eternity."]] But what if your life is eternal? What becomes of the echoes? I'll tell you. ''[[SuddenlyShouting I'll tell you!]]'' They thunder and roar! They become deafening reminders of your failures! [[ShellShockedVeteran They remind you that you once stood with the blood of murdered friends on your hands, and that it was all for naught.]] And when you've listened long enough, you realise there's no absolution, no redemption. No point to any of it. So don't tell me how we can change the world, and how I am needed. This world has nothing left to offer me, nothing worth saving, and I couldn't care less if it all burned.''

->''Eternal life brings eternal pain.''

->''What good is a world that goes on forever? That sounds pretty lame!''

->''The [[ImmortalityInducer Hourai Elixir]] is a forbidden medicine [[ImmortalityImmorality that should never be consumed by humans]]. With but a single taste, you will never become an adult. With a second taste, you will forget all disease and illness. With a third taste.... your soul will forever churn in torment!''

->''You're both gonna die and leave me behind? No! I don't wanna be alone! If you die, I wanna die, too!''

-> ''"You wanna know the most difficult part about being a {{toon}}? You never die... You just keep on living, year after year, and seeing everyone forget you existed."''

->''Ugh... the same nonsense, over and over again. How does [[GodEmpress Albia]] ''stand it?

->''Holy crap! Is ''[[DecadentCourt everyone]]'' [[EverythingTryingToKillYou out to kill me]]?? This whole undead immortality thing is totally overrated!!''

->Ech. Living forever. You hear the stories of people who make stupid wishes like that. Never turns out well.

->''I'm Immortal.\\
[[DeathSeeker I just want to die]], I don't care how.''

->''I don't really wanna become immortal that much anyways, it's too much hard work. You gotta keep watching people going in and out of the White House for the rest of time. No thanks, ''Samuel!

->''Kivouackians don't perish with time. Billions of years we've been about, and life's not worth much once all the rest is gone. You get tired of the wind and the birds, the sound of laughter and the smell of pine. Life is like a piece of paper, and the writing is our lives. When you only have ninety years, the ink turns to gold, so valuable are the words, the days you live, because soon, the story will end. But what if you have a neverending page, a bottomless inkwell? The more you write, the less it all means. That's our curse! [[AnimalisticAbomination We]] live so long that it's not even life anymore. We're not living forever. We're ''dying'' forever.''

->'''[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1440 SCP-1440]]''': Should you choose to [[ChessWithDeath challenge Death to a game of cards for your life]], there is one thing you must never do.\\
'''Dr. ████''': And what is that?\\
'''SCP-1440''': [[GoneHorriblyRight Win]].

->''I think they [humanity] are just doing the best they can with immortality. A human being will rarely admit this to you, but they tend to be terrified of living forever. They were born and raised with the understanding that their lives would end. They've achieved everything they wanted to achieve, all the ills that plagued them.\\

I think that makes you one of the lucky ones.''

->''I think, if viewed by one of the many Emily clones in ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfTomorrow'', the Simpsons would seem to have done it: they have achieved eternal life, they forever have purpose, they will continue their line until the end of time, and [[FranchiseZombie nothing can stop them]]. They ''were'' the Simpsons, they ''are'' the Simpsons and ''will be'' the Simpsons. And having achieved this, they get... they get ''what'', exactly? Constant reminders of [[{{Flanderization}} the ways they've changed]], and constant reminders of [[StatusQuoIsGod the ways they cannot]].''

->''Haven't you ever wanted to live forever? It sounds appealing as just a general idea, because the mind immediately sees itself going on as it has, cheating the system and getting an All-You-Can-Sentiently-Experience Buffet in the form that it's comfortable with. The body is bad with time this way because getting old still comes as a shock to it somehow, even though you've always known it was coming. The body is poor at anticipating fundamental change, habitual and automatic to the end. Eternal life is, when you think about it, a complexly frightening prospect. What happens when mind and body fall out of synch? When the body becomes a prison from which there is no escape, not even in death?''

->''When a moment in our life feels worthwile, I think it's because we're putting our soul into that moment. But I think that the human mind is designed to enjoy things only for so long because we can only live for so long, so much as we might like something, we always have to put it down to enjoy something else.\\
Maybe becoming timeless would lead to a fantastic few decades, but after a bit, I think everything would start to feel kind of bland. I think even passion has an expiration date. It's a passion of a lifetime. And I think that's because we also do things to leave a mark. Leave a bit of our soul behind after we pass. Think we've only got so much soul to live, and when we live too much, we run out of soul.''

->''They don't know what it's like to liiive... fooor... eeever... aaand fooorget who they even are...''

->'''Ignignokt''': But we can offer you this: Cash our check and you will get immortal.\\
'''Err''': Never-ending life...\\
'''Carl''': [[ThisLoserIsYou Nahh. Sometimes I kinda wanna die.]]

->''You want to live like this? Abandoned, alone, a prisoner in a world you can see but never touch? Old and infirm as you are, I'd trade a thousand of my frozen years for your worst day.''

->''Take a good look, doctor. I've been like this for nearly fifty years and I haven't aged one day. I have become what many men have dreamed of: an immortal. And yet, there hasn't been a day, an hour, a minute, I haven't thought about death. It ''obsesses'' me. Even now.''

->''Why did you make me do this?! You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! [[MemeticMutation Think, Mark!]] You'll outlast [[PunyEarthlings every fragile, insignificant being on this planet]]. You'll live to see this world crumble to dust and blow away! Everyone and EVERYTHING you know will be gone! What will you have after 500 years?!''

->'''Kyle''': Alright, dude. Let's just say you're not crazy and it's true. What's the big deal? I mean, I think it'll be pretty cool not to die...\\
'''Mysterion''': ''PRETTY COOL?!'' Do you know what it feels like [[TheyKilledKennyAgain to be stabbed? To be shot? Decapitated?! Torn apart?! Burned?! Run over?! It's not pretty cool, Kyle.]] ''[[{{Deconstruction}} IT FUCKING]] [[ImmortalityHurts HURTS.]]'' And it won't go away and no one will believe me! Remember this time! JUST TRY TO FUCKING REMEMBER!! (''shoots himself in front of his friends'')

->''In a way, both ''Film/{{Cocoon}}'' pictures consider the same dilemma that the angels struggled with in Wim Wenders' ''Film/WingsOfDesire'': Is it better to live forever as a spirit who can feel nothing, or for a finite time as a creature who can breathe and hurt and die? My answer would be: Take me to [[GildedCage the silver city]] and I'll think it over for a few thousand years.''

->The grass are gone, the plants are gone, the animals are gone, everything became a dirge. You can still see them all, but to me everything have become a dirge. I'm standing before the great macrocosm, just waiting for my time. And all I've been doing is waiting for the sweetness of death, which will definitely come for me.

->Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.