Immortality is the ability to live forever, or put another way, it is an immunity from death. It is unknown whether human physical (material) immortality is an achievable condition —biological forms have inherent limitations which may or may not be able to be overcome through medical interventions or engineering. And even should human biological immortality be achieved, people could still continue to die from unforeseeable traumatic events.
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Characters with this power or ability:
- God ,
- Lucinda Nightbane ,
- Contemplator ,
- Allan Quatermain, Jr. ,
- Cassidy ,
- Ares ,
- Hades ,
- Shiver Man ,
- Saint of Killers ,
- Alucard
Quotations About This Subject:
- Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. ,
- Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent. -- Jesus -- John 17:3 ,
- To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. ,
- Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while. ,
- But thy eternal summer shall not fade. ,
- We feel and know that we are eternal. ,
- Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog. ,
- Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. ,
- Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. ,
- Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
