Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.