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.
Immortality Quotes
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.
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
Men long for an afterlife in which there is apparently nothing to do but delight in heaven’s wonders.
The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
