There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of death. What is divine, terrible, and incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal.


"The Immortal", § IV, in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)

Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of death....

There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of death....

There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of death....

There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of death....