I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of 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.
If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
The only greatness for man is immortality.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We could travel deep into utopia and beyond.
Immortality... Is that a super power?
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.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
I would like immortality.
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
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.
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.
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.
Aging followed by death is the price we pay for the immortality of our genes. You find this information soul-killing; I find it thrilling, liberating.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.