Immortality Quotes: Timeless Wisdom on Eternal Life

"The first requisite for immortality is death"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

Edgar A. Shoaff

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying"

Woody Allen, Director

"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, Comedian

"The only greatness for man is immortality"

James Dean, Actor

"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"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"

James Joyce, Novelist

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

Alexander Chase, Author

"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"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

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

E. T. Bell, Mathematician

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

Mason Cooley, Writer

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

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality"

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

"Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality"

Clifton Fadiman, Writer

"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, Journalist

"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, Philosopher

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Life is the childhood of our immortality"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"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"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"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, President

"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, Novelist

"Each life makes its own immitation of immortality"

Stephen King, Author

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

Peter Ustinov, Actor

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

George Santayana, Philosopher

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

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

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

Bruce Lee, Actor

"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, Scientist

"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"

Joseph Addison, Writer

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

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"For love is immortality"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"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, Lawyer

"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality"

Jean Paul, Author

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

James Thurber, Comedian

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

John Keats, Poet

"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality"

Norman Cousins, Author

"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

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