"Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare? All your sins punished? I can offer you... an escape."
— Davy Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
"A promise of power, fulfilled! I will be... IMMORTAL!!"
—The Vizier, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
"Anything less than immortality is a complete waste of time."
— Bender, Futurama
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days
To sing God's praise
Than when we've first begun.
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days
To sing God's praise
Than when we've first begun.
— Author unknown, commonly sung as the last verse of "Amazing Freaking Grace"
Hudson: Growing old terrifies you, doesn't it?
Xanatos: (not-quite convincingly) Nothing terrifies me. Because nothing is beyond my ability to change.
You don't cheat death. You whimper in fear of it.
— Bruce Wayne to Ra's al Ghul, Batman Beyond
I have heard the whispered tales of immortality
The deepest mystery
From an ancient book, I took a clue
I scaled the frozen mountaintops of eastern lands unknown
Time and Man alone
Searching for the lost Xanadu
The deepest mystery
From an ancient book, I took a clue
I scaled the frozen mountaintops of eastern lands unknown
Time and Man alone
Searching for the lost Xanadu
— Rush, "Xanadu"
Impurity shall be our armour
Hate shall be our weapon
Immortality shall be our reward
Hate shall be our weapon
Immortality shall be our reward
— Chaos Space Marine creed, Warhammer 40,000
"Death is the Gods' crime."
Childeric: Die well, mother. Die long and slow.
Berengaria: You too, Childeric, when your time comes. [she is led away]
Berengaria: You too, Childeric, when your time comes. [she is led away]
Childeric: But I will make sure that it never does. Your evil was for so little, mother, if it has to die with you. The legacy of my evil will be eternal.
And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won't tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they're old enough to bear it; and when they learn they'll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed!
— Harry James-Potter-Evans-Verres, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Settra simmered with rage, for he knew that one day he would be defeated, not by a mortal foe, nor by any superior - for surely there were none - but by the cruel passage of time and his own mortality. Settra knew that his dreams of global conquest were unreachable in his mortal lifespan, and though the fires of ambition still burned brightly within his heart, his body would wither and fail him before he could see his vision fulfilled. Worse, Settra recognized that death might rob him of all he had achieved: his lands, his people, and his power. Over the following months, he became ever more obsessed, demanding audiences with the wisest priests and scholars in the land to discuss how the intolerable problem of his mortality might be overcome. In his arrogance, he vowed that the grave would not claim him, and set in motion events that would forever change his kingdom...
—Warhammer: Tomb Kings Army Book (8th edition)
"A scientist makes the impossible reality. A researcher searches for that which nobody can understand. And a doctor...a doctor denies death, to the end! And that is what I shall do! That is my dream: I shall search out every secret and treasure of this world...and at the very end of it, I shall find a way to immortality for all mankind! What say you? Will you follow me, to a better future?"
—Grigori Vinci, The Butcher Bird
"I will go to any length to achieve my goal. Eternal life is worth any sacrifice."
—Zur the Enchanter, Magic: The Gathering quote on Zuran Orb
"There is only immortality, only eternal life should be the goal one should pursue! If one cannot live forever, is there any difference between a rank nine Gu Immortal and a pile of shit in the gutter?"
—Fang Yuan, Reverend Insanity
"To live forever, Jonas? Doesn't that sound... amazing? To just go on... and on... That's worth killing for, right?"
— Sarah, LG15: the resistance, "4:00 PM"
"Flesh is no more than a cage. Only when we cast off the shackles of our bodies will we attain immortality, Bishop."
—Judas, _iCEY._
"Sometimes I forget what it really means to die. I need to forget, otherwise I'd be too scared to take a single step. Then I remember, and I'm useless. Terrified. So I pretend that I'm not. I pretend that I'm confident. That I have control. But I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to live at least one day without constantly lying to myself."
The Youthful Naturalist, Fallen London
