Immortality Quotes

Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent. Jesus -- John 17:3

Bible

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Terry Pratchett

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

Edgar Sheffield Brightman

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Stanislaw Lec

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Bob Dylan

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Plato

A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal...

Bertrand Russell

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Heraclitus

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Herb Caen

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.

Anne Smedley

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

William James

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

Hannah Arendt

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

Aristotle

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Terry Pratchett

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

Abraham Lincoln

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Francis Thompson