One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Achieving immortality requires paying a high price, dying many times while still alive.
- In plain terms
- Living forever demands repeated symbolic deaths.
- What can you take from it?
- Immortality comes at great personal cost.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What does 'dying' mean here?
- Is the cost worth the benefit?
Another view
Literal immortality is unattainable; the phrase is metaphorical.
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