Immortality Quotes
- Page 2As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.
Alex Chiu
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.
Henry Norris Russell
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
Sylvester Stallone
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.
Edsger Dijkstra
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
Harriet Martineau
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.
Walter Gropius
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.
Albert J. Nock
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov
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.
Henry Van Dyke
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
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.
Bill Cosby
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan
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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark
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.
Clarence Darrow
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.
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Arianna Huffington
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana