"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality"

"Life is the childhood of our immortality"

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

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

"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it"

"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"

"Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death"

"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"

"Immortality - a fate worse than death"

"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"

"Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first"