Deathlessness Quotes

Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness which can see naught above or beyond itself. (Poul Anderson)
The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art. View quote
Ad Reinhardt
And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this ... Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness. View quote
J. R. R. Tolkien
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. View quote
George Meredith
Death, when understood by men, is deathlessness: but, when not understood by the foolish, it is death. It is not this death that must be feared, but the loss of the soul, which is ignorance of God. View quote
Anthony the Great