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“Immortality must grant endless patience.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be...” Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age
“If man were immortal, do you realize what his meat bills would be?” Woody Allen, Getting Even
“However, he means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“To himself every one is an immortal: he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible than the men . . . The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.” Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
“His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.” William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
“Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.” Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

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