Any great novels on how the protagonist gained immortality (doesn't matter how/why) and now has to live with that curse?
Any great novels on how the protagonist gained immortality (doesn't matter how/why) and now has to live with that curse?
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Blade of the Immortal
No comics, I meant for grown-ups
i attained immortality however in exchange i lost 50 iq points. ask me anything.
Id love to read something about an immortal that got stuck in a deep sea cave and has no way of anyone finding him there or escaping.
Write it then.
Interview with the Vampire
>and now has to live with that curse?
i am convinced that this is a psyop by the israelites.
>what is, schitzo?
the idea that immortality is a curse. Being immortal would be sweet as fuck.
>but... muh loneliness
shut the fuck up. I am tired of extrovert normies that live their lives chasing short dopamine highs constantly trying to gaslight me into mortality. The israelites source the majority of their power through debt and human fragility. Grandma takes out a loan, she mortgages the family property. When she dies, the israelites claim said property and steal your birthright. but they couldnt do that if she lived forever, or at the very least did her best to live as long as possible and not see her end as some kind of inevitability and thus fall victim to the 'you cant takeit with you' meme. They want you to live short miserable lives, to gamble it all away at the end, and then giveit to them. I reject this philosophy. Come brothers, we must strive to be immortal gods, to live forever and never pay back these debts they try to subject us to with their vile sorcerous ways.
Living forever is only desirable when everyone you love also lives forever. Otherwise you see everyone you know die, again and again and again ad infinitum.
How many times can you marry and have children and grandchildren? For everyone it's the firrst time, but you have seen it a million times already, you're tired of it. Why would you even want to live at the same time as your grandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandchildren?
You would just wanna die at that point.
Not just that, but immortality itself is a pretty nasty curse if it doesn't come with eternal youth as well. One of the Greek goddesses ended up with a shriveled, old husband cause she wanted to make her human lover immortal but forgot to read the tiny print.
Base human love is overrated.
speaking from experience, surely
This is like saying you'll never ever want pets again because you outlive your first one anon. I'd be sad, but also happy because I could literally carry their memory into the future forever.
NTA but that is a common phenomenon found in gen X. an inability to get over a pet's death and a subsequent refusal to adopt one ever again. I think it probably relates to their whole muh be a man and suppression of emotion generational upbringing but I experienced that phenomenon and have known a weird amount of men who selfishly deprive their children of pets because of grieving problems. yes I'm seething
Weird, I love my pets until they die and years after. Even if I'm sad I think about the nice memories they gave me and how I gave htem a good life.
Pets are massively stupid anyway
i hate shortlived subhumans so much its unreal.
Dorian Gay, supposedly, but I couldn't get through the first chapter. There is also Roger Zelazny's "This Immortal", that supposedly inspired PTS, but I also couldn't get into it. The latter isn't about regret.
Honestly, Planescape:Torment is basically a novel on the topic.
Not a novel but The Immortal by Borges
Not full immortality but Melmoth the Wanderer is said to be a great novel.
Fuck this thread, I’m writing a novel about immortals right now and paranoid someone will publish my own novel before I finish it
No one here writes, so no worries.
Not a novel but Parsifal. Amfortas' wound, caused by his falling into sin, will not heal but, as the king of Monsalvat, his duty to care for the sacred vessel which provides eternal life does not allow him the only cure, death. He prolongs a life of daily shame and suffering, forced to remember his sinfulness, or fail to perform his duty.
>Wehvolles Erbe, dem ich verfallen,
>ich, einz'ger Sünder unter allen,
>des höchtsten Heiligtums zu pflegen,
>auf Reine herabzuflehen seinem Segen!
>Woeful inheritance to which I have fallen,
>that I, the only sinner of all my people,
>must tend what is supremely sacred,
>invoking its blessing on the righteous!
Gulliver's Travels but only the voyage to Laputa, where he meets the struldbrugs. That's enough immortality for a lifetime
The immortality is a curse thing is the most retarded meme in existence. It only ever reads as a fox and grape scenario where the cope is to convince yourself that this unattainable grape is always poison.
>muh loved ones
Retard. They will all suffer and die anyway, irregardless of you being immortal or not. Get over this by treasuring the extra years and experiences you do get to have with them as a benefit of being immortal.
>but I'll not want to have family and friends at some points! Because of muh grief and shit!
No one cares. If you get tired of human connection because you can't adapt and learn to make peace with the mortality of others then remain sick of it for infinity. Or maybe just suck it up and pursue other sources of happiness that, you have all the time in the world to discover something that works for you.