Immortality Quotes

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

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.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious 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.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

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.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

I show people how to build their own immortality device.

For love is immortality.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.