Top 80 Immortality Quotes

I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?

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

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality… That seems mentally ill.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don’t believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you’re in, it seems like we’re working towards immortality by science.

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.

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

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

While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.

What do I mean when I say ‘suspended animation’? It is the process by which animals de-animate, appear dead and then can wake up again without being harmed. OK, so here is the sort of big idea: If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.

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

We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

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

Women have always been the world’s burden bearers. Ever since history began the great burden of the world’s faith, its belief in immortality has been carried in the arms of its women.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I’d rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

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.

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day’s end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about ‘innatality’ – about having not yet been born – yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

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

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.

For me, the key to longevity – and immortality, in a sense – has to do with transformation.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

There’s a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don’t see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you’re even excited by them.

I don’t think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you’re achieving. I’m all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

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

I don’t want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

I believe in God and immortality.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

It’s hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn’t exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you’ll be forever young and happy.

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

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

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

The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, ‘Isn’t he wonderful?’

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

I would like immortality.

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.

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

God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real; it brings immortality to all and opens the door to eternal life.

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality.

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

A book is the only immortality.

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

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.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

Well, if you don’t want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won’t die.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

Immortality… Is that a super power?

There’s something magical about film, it’s the ultimate for me, because it’s kind of permanent – inasmuch as anything is. When I went to see Buster Keaton when I was about 14 and I came out of the cinema having really laughed at this film which had been made 50 years before, I thought: That’s immortality. It’s fantastic.

All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. 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.

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

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

One of my favorite books was ‘The Book of Immortality’ by Adam Leith Gollner, which talks about cheating death and life extension and frames with a story that David Copperfield finds a fountain of youth on an island he bought.

Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They’ve been taking 500 milligrams for years. It’s a really great source of data.