# Quote — Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven

> Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

- Author: [Mary Renault](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault.md)
- Book: [Fire from Heaven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/fire-from-heaven.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Renault#Fire_from_Heaven_(1969)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/fire-from-heaven/do-not-believe

## More from this book

> He had come back a man, and faithless like a man. He knew that he had longed for her; that true friends share everything, except the past before they met. If only she would weep, even that, and let him comfort her; but she would not humble herself before a man. if only he would run to her side and cling to her; but his manhood was hard-won, no mortal should make him a child again.

p. 187 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/fire-from-heaven/he-had-come.md)