Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
Immortality Quotes
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
I’ve put in Ulysses 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 you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immortal, everything would be permissible even cannibalism.
He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
