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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

For love is immortality.

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.

I show people how to build their own immortality device.

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

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

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