Immortality Seeker/Quotes

Do you fear death? Do you fear the punishment for your... transgressions? [Exhales smoke] One Hundred Years before the mast, that is what I offer yee.

—Davy Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Jones: Do you fear death?

Captain Jack:...You have no idea.

—Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

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.

—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.

—Gargoyles

Voldemort: There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!

Dumbledore: You are quite wrong. Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness...

—Harry Potter

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 have scaled the mountaintops of eastern lands unknown
Time and Man alone

Searching for the lost Xanadu

—Rush, "Xanadu"