History Quotes / WhoWantsToLiveForever

->'''Soldier''': If only I could also stay young forever and ever like [France], wouldn't that be wonderful? Right, don't you think so--\\
'''His Girlfriend''': Are you sure? You'd be living forever, you know. In a different tempo than everyone else, with time flowing... We'd go to Paris for work, live together... and we'd have all these children and those children would grow up... My hands would get all wrinkly and I wouldn't be able to hear your voice anymore... And then I would die. And even after me, you'd be attending a lot, lot more funerals. Can a normal human being even bear so much? And no matter how many people you fall in love with, they would always leave you behind. Wouldn't you always be alone like that?

->''Hell is enduring the pain of death, only to [[ResurrectiveImmortality be reborn]]. This limbo I suffer has the persistence of the rising sun; never a sign of salvation or deliverance into the next world. To me, ''that'' is Hell.''

->''Immortality ain't nothing but a nightmare. Life's valuable because it's short. We gotta do our best with the time we got.''

->''I've been destined to live forever, even if humanity is annihilated as a result. However, I'm able to die. To be or not to be. It makes no difference to me. My death is the only absolute liberty.''

->''[[Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi I am Evangeline A.K. McDowell.]] A vampire. I've been alive for 700 years.]] What? You're jealous? Settle down, youngster. {{Immortality}} isn't as good as it sounds. It can be quite harsh on you, you know. Well, there are fun times along the way. [[{{Deconstruction}} But when you're living a long life, before you know it... you'll be on your own at the end. No, even before that you'll grow tired of the things you loved. Devotion and attachment become impossible. You'll rapidly forget just about everything.]] Bringing up things isn't worth it anymore. What kind of fate... is this?\\
[[DeconReconSwitch This is the story of such people, who ended up being such trivial.]]''

->''For you people who are destined to die one day, can you understand the feelings of an undead who wants to die, but can't?''

->''I have lived for 10,000 years. Believe me, you have no idea what that means for me: boredom. Everlasting, hideous boredom. A never-ending search for ways to pass the time, and mating with a human woman is one of the few I enjoy.''

->''In life, you can find salvation because there's an end. Not being able to die means you're going to be left behind in the world. Everyone who knows you will ultimately leave behind and die. Lives appear and disappear one after another and [[ForcedToWatch all you can do is watch]]. As they fall like endless snows... As they walk to the unreachable moon... No matter what situation you find yourself in, [[FateWorseThanDeath the day you obtain an immortal life will be the day your eternal hell begins for all time]].''

->''I got no arms, I'm blind, I didn't have an erection since the planet stopped moving and you want me to be like this for eternity!''

->''My armies have long been ''dust'' in the desert out there, my slave girls, too! I go ''gladly'' to join them! Everlasting life, ''good-bye!

->''Do you ''hear'', ye accursed Elder Gods? Do you truly ''hear??'' That's the sound of ''death'' there, slicing away at that bolted door... the sound of laughing ''death'', always triumphant in the ''end''... and ''here'', at last, is my ''deliverer!'' The one whom even ''your guardians'' could not keep from me! White wolf -- elementals -- you were determined that, though I had ''bargained'' with you for eternal life, I still should not ''enjoy'' it -- but stay a ''prisoner'' here for all time! But you left a ''slight'' hope, if only to ''torment'' me: that one might ''slay'' me, if he got ''past'' all those guardians. Well, one ''has'' done that which no amount of ''outrage'' could spur any weak-kneed ''villager'' to do... one whom even your ''wind-elementals'' cannot keep from reaching the calm ''eye'' of the now-rising ''hurricane!'' And, ''in'' that eye stand ''I''... ''Ranephi''... ''weary'' of aimless ''living''... ''grateful'' to be ''set free'' of my bondage to ''undeath''... by the downward stroke of a ''barbarian-wielded axe!'' You ''lose,'' ye hated ''Elder Gods!'' You '''lo--'''''

->So, I've tried many times to have Obrinrin's miserable curse undone. The most obscure attempt was guided by an Old Roots Shaman who lived deep in the bush. He claimed that the light from his fire could not remove the shadow that marked my steps. He failed. In the end, they all failed, each time proving more pointless and eternally frustrating.
->I am reduced to existing as an ageless animal. I eat and shit and [[WalkingTheEarth roam forever without rot]].

->"'''''OUR PAST IS YOUR FUTURE. THAT MANKIND ACCEPTS YOU NOW IS IRRELEVANT, FOR IT IS THE NATURE OF TIME TO CHANGE, AND ALL THINGS CHANGE IN TIME. VOWS CAN BE BETRAYED. CREEDS CAN LOSE THEIR MEANING. COVENANTS CAN BE BROKEN. ALL WHO KNOW YOU WILL DIE. AND IN A THOUSAND YEARS, WHO WILL KNOW YOU AS YOU WERE?'''''"

->Mothra understands the problem; not only are The Two Who are One grieving, but the male half is closing himself off in an attempt to cope with it, perhaps hoping if he just ignores his hurt for long enough it will eventually go away. But the female half knows that this will just be the first of many losses like it, that one by one they will outlive everyone she's ever known. San doesn't know how to deal with that, not after eons of seeing little ones as little more than playthings.

->He never saw her again after that. Not even as the years ticked by, as the voices surged in intensity then lulled, then surged once more like the tides washing away etchings in the sand. Years, decades, centuries. Sollux moved through all of them, never changing, never wasting into nothing.\\

Easy. Being loved by her.

->Immortality is seen by many as a gift, to never die and face the eternal silence. What it is, however, is a curse. Living on, longer than anything should. Waiting. Waiting for one day, the miracle of death to take you. [[AfterTheEnd The year is 5387.]]

->''Celestia nodded in silence, composing herself. "It's... not as bad as they make it sound," she said, though the wistfulness in her voice rendered it somewhat unconvincing. "It is not as if the years will go by any faster than they already do; you will have all the time in the world for your friends, and the friends after them -- and there will be friends after them, I assure you. Friends are what make it all worthwhile.\\
"When ponies imagine immortality, they imagine what it would be like to grow old and not die. They look at old ponies who have lost much, who are spent and who welcome the end with a healthy appreciation for their life; they imagine that eventually the pain of loss becomes too great for these ponies to handle and they imagine how horrible it must be to be denied release.\\
"Now, a life well lived is a beautiful thing -- and to be proud enough to think it complete is enviable indeed -- but as much as I wish it weren't so, many of those old ponies who greet death with a smile have not lost half so much as some a quarter their age. It is pony nature to grieve and move on. You will be sad, and you will remember your friends forever; you may never have the same ''kind'' of friends again, but when the time comes, you will not be left an old mare with nothing left before you.\\
"Immortality is not an eternity of looking back and regretting all the things you could have done; as an alicorn your past will always be finite, your future infinite. Mathematically, you could even say you will always have your entire life ahead of you."''

->''Immortality is a curse! Brother, trust me!''

->''Time... Time flows by us like water. The ages pass until we are weary, so weary of life. Everything we create is destroyed, the lands we love are upturned. Mortal man may pass beyond this world, even if they do not know what lies there, but the elves... the elves must stay. You are about to face something, Ancanar, that may require stronger faith then you know have. Death... death is a gift. Ancanar.''

->''Yeah, well, life is a bitch, ain't it? Then you don't die.''

->'''Maria Yudina''': But I'm confident of everlasting life.\\
'''Nikita Khrushchev''': Who the fuck in their right mind would want everlasting life? The endless conversation!

->''Well, it's [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor everything you've ever wanted]]; [[ImmortalitySeeker eternal life as part of The One]]. [[AndIMustScream You're not going to like it]].''

->''Ah, well, [[SuicideMission who wants to live forever]]? HAHAHAHAH! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!''

->''Oh I've lived to see some amazing things, Elly. Another century come to pass, but I've... I've had to see my friends and loved ones die off through the years... Hal and Melinda... Brutus Howell... my wife... my boy. And you Elaine... you'll die too, and my curse is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my atonement you see; it's my punishment, for letting John Coffey ride the lightning; for killing a miracle of God. You'll be gone like all the others. I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually, that I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality, but I will have wished for death... long before death finds me. In truth, I wish for it already.''

->''Everyone you love is gone! I can see it in your eyes: you wish for death! [...] I curse you with life. To never know peace. To walk the Earth alone for eternity. ''You will never die...

->''We are not among the living, and so we cannot die. [[TheUndead But neither are we dead.]] For too long I've been parched with thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starving to death and haven't died. [[SenseLossSadness I feel]] ''[[SenseLossSadness nothing]]''. Not the wind on my face, nor the spray of the sea, nor the warmth of a woman's flesh.''

->''[[DareToBeBadass C'mon, you apes, you wanna live forever?!]]''

->''Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?''

->''Immortality is only for the gods. I wonder how they can stand it.''

->''[[AC: I couldn't have given them more life. I could only have given them immortality. They didn't think it was worth the price.]]''

->''To one as young as you, I'm sure it seems incredible, but to Nicolas and Perenelle, it really is like going to bed at the end of a very, ''very'' long day.''

->''Life's only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are.''

->''The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.''

->Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged was - indeed, is - one of the Universe's very small number of immortal beings.\\

In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.

->''We could not die. We had tried it. We had attempted suicide, oh one or two of us had. But {{A|IIsACrapshoot}}M had stopped us. AM was intent on keeping us in his belly forever, twisting and torturing us perpetually.''

->''Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end?''

->''What do mortals know? Flesh can heal, but the soul can be scarred! To be doomed to wander through eternity... branded an outcast, no land to call home, no man to name friend! Whatever he seeks to love - to grasp - slips through his embrace inevitably. Age consumes the bones of his hope. The loneliness! Only memories, cold phantoms to torture his dreams. And the hideous, smothering boredom that creeps more stifling with each decade, as the taste of life's frantic delights and transient interests grows stale and dry upon his spirit! It is a curse that waxes less endurable with each passing year."''

->''Everything dies. It is good that everything dies. [[TogetherInDeath I want to die when you die]]. Do not let him enchant me, do not let him make me immortal.''

->''But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.''

->''People do not want immortality. They simply do not want to die [...] They want to live. They want to feel the ground beneath their feet, see the clouds overhead, love other people, be with them, and think. Nothing more. Everything that has been said beyond that is a lie.''

->''Ah, but to live forever, eh, Thibor the Wallach? How sweet is life, eh? But would you believe it can be boring, too? No, of course not, for you have not known the ennui of the centuries. Women? [[MemeticMolester I have had such women]]! And food? Ah! [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Gobbets you've not yet dreamed of]]. And yet for these last hundred – nay, two hundred – years, all of these things have bored me.''

->Those who used the [[RingOfPower Nine Rings]] became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old. They obtained glory and great wealth, yet it turned to their undoing. They had, it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to them... and they became forever invisible, save to him that wore the Ruling Ring, and they entered into the realm of shadows. The Nazgûl were they, the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terrible servants; darkness went with them, and they cried with the voices of death.

->At twenty, you acted circumspectly, taking no risks, because if you worked for [[MegaCorp the Company]] you had centuries ahead of you. A shame to throw them away by fast driving or high living.\\

''That's'' why Cheng led a party of green-hand colonists to a new world. [[DeathSeeker There was really nothing to lose except a life stretched thin by endless living]].

->With my own eyes I saw the Sybil of Cumae hanging in a bottle, and when the boys said to her, "Sybil, what do you want?" she replied, "I want to die."

->The longer Brad lived, the more alienated he became. He'd seen through the facade of existence, had cracked the secrets of time. Not like it mattered. Somehow he'd drifted through life [[BornAgainImmortality the third time]] without making any actual friends. There was no one he could talk to about his situation after all. No one could relate. He had no love. He'd forgotten how to ''feel.''
->Everything was a lie.
->[[HereWeGoAgain He woke up in the womb]].

->'''Chad''': I feel like I'm doomed for all of eternity to be trapped in an adulterous, unhappy relationship working on this goddamn house... [[SkewedPriorities which will never be just the way I want it]].\\
'''Moira''': ''[[BrutalHonesty You are]].''

->''Forever young, I wanna be forever young\\
Do you really want to live forever, forever?''

->''But I am damned\\

Thus my freedom is captivity''

->''Sapphire Trans-Am\\

[[TheFogOfAges Someday we won't remember this.]]''

->''Who wants to live forever\\
When love must die?''

'''Magnus:''' I'd hate it. [[ShutUpHannibal Shut the fuck up]]. (''[[NoSell stuffs the Bell into his bag without another word]]'')

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->From too much love of living,\\

Winds somewhere safe to sea.

->''Everything ends... Eventually. Every story ever told finishes in death if you tell it long enough. Sort of a fact of life... Got used to that now. Across time... Across space... I've lost it all now. Family. Friends. My own people. My home. Donna... Rose... I've always survived, I've always endured. I've always got through whatever has been thrown at me. However much I lose, I always carry on. To bear that burden. To remember them. Everything ends, eventually...''

->''Another age turns and once more, the world is hung in the balance. Once again, my brethren must fight and die for a cause that means little to us. Long ago we made our decision and there is no changing it. But the long years have worn me, as the tide shatters the shore, and sometimes I grow weary of the endless battle. What is more, I now wonder if it truly was our decision. I’ve seen enough to know how manipulative the Architect of Fate can be. I suppose it matters not. In truth, the only time I truly feel alive is when I face a foe capable of killing me.''

-->--'''Nolan Grayson/Omni-Man''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible}}''

->''Don't you get it? She's been alive [[TimeAbyss longer than you can comprehend]]. The only thing she craves now is release. [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum Death]].''

->I was an Aliak in the service of TheEmpire. We acted as scouts, spies, and assassins. Those of us who served well were rewarded with a very special enchantment... We were [[BlessedWithSuck 'blessed']] by magic to live ''far'' beyond our years. I've come here every day ever since the fall of The Empire to pray for forgiveness and waiting for my time to come. And now, after outliving my families, my friends, and even my enemies, I'm just an old man with no one to talk to.

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

->I don't want to live forever. I'm not even sure I want the time I have.

-->-- ''[[Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon Abraxas: Empty Fullness]]'' "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46831738/chapters/117962629 Sermones ad Murtuos]]"

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-->-- '''Doris Doodle''', [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/doris-doodle/i-understand/viewer?title_no=523800&episode_no=27 I Understand]]

'''SCP-1440''': Win.

->''"Look at [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien us]]. When life has become futile. meaningless, unendurable, it must be allowed to end. Don't you see? For us, the disease is immortality."''

-->-- Susan Ertz, novelist.

->''What good is a world that goes on forever? That sounds pretty lame!''
-->--'''Sonic the Hedgehog''', ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight''

->''Though immortality may have eluded me... [[FaceDeathWithDignity perhaps it's for the best]]. After all... what is eternity without my beloved Agnes by my side?''

->''We've lived too long -- seen too much. To live on as we have is to leave behind joy, and love, and companionship, because we know it to be transitory, of the moment; we know it will turn to ash. Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your kind has ever received.''
-->-- '''Lorien''', ''Series/BabylonFive'', [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E06IntoTheFire "Into the Fire"]]

'''Buffy:''' Like say... immortality? \\

->''I don't age. I regenerate. ''You'' wither and decay. You can spend the rest of your life with me, [[MayflyDecemberRomance but I can't spend the rest of my life with you]]. That's the curse of the Time Lords.''
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "School Reunion"

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Lazarus Experiment"

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Night of the Doctor"

->''Immortality isn't living forever. That's not what it feels like. Immortality is everybody else dying.''
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Girl Who Died"

->''A life this long, do you understand what it is? It's a battlefield, like this one, and it's empty. Because everyone else has fallen.''
-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Twice Upon a Time"

->'''The Doctor''': Why should I be responsible for you?\\
'''Ashildr''': You made me immortal!\\
'''The Doctor''': I saved your life. I didn't know that your heart would rust because I kept it beating. I didn't think your conscience would need renewing, that the well of human kindness would run dry. I just wanted to save a terrified young woman's life.\\
'''Ashildr''': You didn't save my life, Doctor. You trapped me inside it.
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Woman Who Lived"

->''I have been delivered from death. To a more permanent hell.''

->''I'd kill a thousand more to never have to be alone. You don't know the pain of living centuries watching [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the women you love]] grow old and [[MayflyDecemberRomance turn to dust]]!''
-->-- '''Dr. Knox''', ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', "Cure"

->''Immortality consists largely of boredom.''
-->-- '''Zefram Cochrane''', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "Metamorphosis"

->''I want to live, however briefly, knowing my life is finite. Mortality gives meaning to human life, captain. Peace, love, friendship. These are precious because we know they cannot endure. A butterfly that lives forever... is really not a butterfly at all."''
-->-- '''Data''', ''Series/StarTrekPicard''

->'''Dana Scully''': You know, most people want to live forever.\\
'''Alfred Fellig''': Most people are idiots, which is one of the reasons I don't.\\
'''Dana Scully''': I think you're wrong. [[LivingForeverIsAwesome How can you have too much life? There's too much to learn, to experience.]]\\
'''Alfred Fellig''': Seventy-five years is enough. Take my word for it. You live forever, sooner or later, you start to think about the big thing you're missing and that everybody else gets to find out about but you.\\
'''Dana Scully''': What about love?\\
'''Alfred Fellig''': What? Does that last forever? Forty years ago, I drove down to the city hall, down to the Hall of Records, Record Archives, whatever they call it. I wanted to look up my wife. It bothered me I couldn't remember her name. Love lasts 75 years, if you're lucky. You don't want to be around when it's gone.
-->-- ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Tithonus"

->'''Demona:''' You know the rules. Killing me will gain you nothing but your own death.\\

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-->-- '''Jacob Geller,''' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f5Xt5pZZZM The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love]]"

'''Ernest:''' And what if I get lonely?! Who am I gonna hang around with, [[BettyAndVeronica Madeleine and Helen]]?! What if something happens to me, what if I get maimed, what if I get shot?! What if someone pushes me down a... what if I fall down a flight of stairs or something?!\\

'''Pinicchio:''' Of course I will. Why wouldn't I?\\

'''Death:''' While you may have eternal life, your friends, your loved ones, do not. Every moment shared with them may be the very last. You never know how long you have with someone until they're gone.

-->-- ''The Wiki/SCPFoundation''

->''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 have after 500 years?!''

->''I'm just ''so tired...
-->-- '''Macbeth''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''

->''You're fighting so you can watch everyone around you die! Think, Mark! You'll outlast 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 have after 500 years?''
-->--'''Nolan Grayson/Omni-man''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible}}''

->'''The Doctor:''' It's one of the most wonderful things about Lady Time, isn't it? How nothing's constant, how everything decays and changes?
'''Charley:''' You call that wonderful?