Immortality Quotes

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

I would like immortality.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.

A book is the only immortality.

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.