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"Didn't you say it doesn't matter how many bolts I shoot at you? Must be rough, being unkillable and all ...
Like you said, we humans are weak. We die easily. But no matter how weak we are, even if we're being chopped to bits or stabbed to death, we still want to live. I'm gonna give you a little taste of what it feels like!"
Like you said, we humans are weak. We die easily. But no matter how weak we are, even if we're being chopped to bits or stabbed to death, we still want to live. I'm gonna give you a little taste of what it feels like!"
— Guts to the Snake Baron, Berserk
"Alpha centauri A, Rigil Kentaurus. It's 4.3 light years from the sun... I've been drifting at 10% the speed of light for about 40 years... Now I'm caught in its gravity well and I'm falling straight into its center. The surface temperature is almost the same as the sun, 5,800 kelvin. At its core it gets up to 16,000,000K. Like a hydrogen bomb that's constantly exploding, But when I fall into its center I won't die. I won't sustain a single injury, I won't even burn up. But I will experience the heat of that inferno firsthand. I'll stay conscious, my mind will stay lucid, and my sense of pain will stay sharp. People talk about burning in the flames of hell, but I am the only one in this plane who is physically capable of experiencing it."
— Karin, UQ Holder!
Comic Books
The Champion of the Universe: You can't leave me like this!
Thanos: Why not? You are immortal. Floating in space will not kill you... but I imagine the experience will get rather old after a century or two.
Thanos: Why not? You are immortal. Floating in space will not kill you... but I imagine the experience will get rather old after a century or two.
— The Thanos Quest
Film — Animated
Deadpool: I can't believe it... I'm alive! [laughing] I'M ALIVE!!!
[the Hulk falls on top of Deadpool, then leaps away]
Deadpool: ...Ow.
[the Hulk falls on top of Deadpool, then leaps away]
Deadpool: ...Ow.
Film — Live-Action
"That which is eternal cannot die... but if it's any consolation, sweet Alex, that hurt like hell."
— The Djinn, Wishmaster
"We are not among the living, and so we cannot die, 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. I feel nothing... not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea, nor the warmth of a woman's flesh."
— Captain Barbosa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
"They strapped me to a cannon, I ended up on the bottom of the ocean, the weight of the water crushing down on me. Unable to move. Unable to die, Jack. And I thought that even the tiniest hope of escaping this fate... I would take it. I would trade anything for it."
— "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Literature
"There's a downside to immortality, one that polite company rarely discusses. What you can't kill, you can indefinitely hurt. So, they burn him. Over and over. They cook him to the marrow and then pull apart the charred skeleton like a wishbone in a Hollywood Thanksgiving dinner, before waiting until he has reassembled and doing it all again."
— Food Of The Gods by Cassandra Khaw
"And no, being burned to ashes won't kill you. Remember Paul? Fell into the acid fountain. They brought him to the infirmary in a chamber pot. He was still conscious. Talked by blowing bubbles in Morse code."
— Meryl, Mogworld
Lister: So they can't kill us.
Rimmer: No, but they can inflict limitless agony on us, which has got to be considered a major negative.
Lister: It's not real. It's just an illusion.
The Cat: Well, as illusions go, it's a damned good one, bud. I for one am totally convinced. I cannot move my body, and I feel like someone's stuffed an umbrella in my brain, opened it up, and started twirling it around.
Rimmer: No, but they can inflict limitless agony on us, which has got to be considered a major negative.
Lister: It's not real. It's just an illusion.
The Cat: Well, as illusions go, it's a damned good one, bud. I for one am totally convinced. I cannot move my body, and I feel like someone's stuffed an umbrella in my brain, opened it up, and started twirling it around.
— Red Dwarf: Backwards
He couldn't be killed, not even by fire, but he did feel pain, and he felt it profoundly, in ways that a human never could. At low levels it was pleasure, and he sought out varieties of that. But hanging and crucifixion were experiences he never wanted to do a second time. To be burned to ashes was agony beyond belief, and reconstructing yourself afterward was worse.
For the record, we do feel pain. We just don't die.
— Nolan, The Ashtown Burials (N. D. Wilson)
Live-Action TV
"You may be immortal, but I can still do damage. How'd you like to spend eternity in five pieces?"
— Xena, Xena: Warrior Princess
Radio
The Doctor: How are you feeling?
Mozart: How do you think? I just fired three bullets into my temple and I'm still here, so rather sore. More than a little disappointed.
Mozart: How do you think? I just fired three bullets into my temple and I'm still here, so rather sore. More than a little disappointed.
Ace: What difference does it make? We know we can't die here.
Albert: Just because you'll be brought back to life doesn't mean you won't suffer!
Peggy: You don't want to stay up here, love. I did it once, and believe me, being burned alive isn't much fun.
Albert: Just because you'll be brought back to life doesn't mean you won't suffer!
Peggy: You don't want to stay up here, love. I did it once, and believe me, being burned alive isn't much fun.
Tabletop Games
"They wished for immortality, now they have it. Realize, upstarts, that agony properly administered can make an instant seem like an eternity, and that an eternity of eternities is a long time in which to suffer."
— Common Tzimisce viewpoint on the Tremere clan, Vampire: The Masquerade
Video Games
"No, my dear, I don't expect you to die, but there is something exquisite in the agony of a hobbled immortal."
— Lilith, The Secret World
"One of the girls managed to dart past the nurse today and throw herself over the railing in the lobby. Not certain if she was trying to end her own life or merely escape... but either way, her legs had healed by the time I managed to get down to the first floor where she lay. Now, without proper setting, the rapid healing process had fused her bones back together at odd angles. We had to re-break and set them almost a dozen times, each due to the small window of viability. Now, those children may be immortal, but I can verify: they feel pain."
— Edward Grimes, Bioshock 2
"THIS T-TIME, DEATH CANNOT SAVE YOU-OU-OU."
— One of Nightmarionne's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
"THE N-NIGHTMARE IS JU-JUST BE-EGINNI-I-ING.."
— One of Nightmarionne's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
"THI-I-IS IS A N-NIGHTMARE THAT YOU-OU WON'T-T W-WAKE FRO-OM."
— One of Nightmarionne's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
"LET'S TA-TASTE DE-DEATH AG-GAIN... AND AGAIN... AND AG-GAIN."
— One of Nightmarionne's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
"LET ME PUT YOU BACK TOGETHER... AND THEN TAKE YOU APART ALL OVER AGAIN."
— One of Nightmare Fredbear's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
"LET'S SEE HOW MANY TIMES YOU CAN BE PULLED APART."
— One of Nightmare Fredbear's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
"What a gift to relish, a victim that can't perish."
— One of Nightmare Freddy's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
"I WILL VOMIT YOU BACK... TO RELIVE YOUR HORROR."
— One of Nightmare's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
"You won't get tired of dying, will you?"
— One of Toy Chica's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
"You and I will be making music together for a long, long time!"
— One of Music Man's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
"You won't die, but you'll wish you could."
— One of Scrap Baby's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
Webcomics
Henri Mer: Why did you make it so robots die?
John Bowman: I don't know how to program a stable immortal.
John Bowman: I don't know how to program a stable immortal.
Western Animation
"Immortality hurts."
— Finn, Jackie Chan Adventures, after slamming into the back of a tunnel while riding on top of a truck.
