No individual exists forever; why should we expect our species to be immortal? Man, said Nietzsche, is a rope stretched between the animal and the superhuman à a rope across the abyss. That will be a noble purpose to have served.
Immortality Quotes
Did He raise a dead man to life? Why, tens of thousands of dead men and women have been raised to life according to all the stories and all the traditions. Was this the only case? All Europe is filled with miracles of that sort, the Catholic church performing miracles almost to the present time. […]
For me the only true success, the only true greatness, lies in immortality.
Constancy is never the virtue of a mortal; To be constant one must be immortal.
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.
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
