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.
Immortality Quotes
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Believe me, Captain, immortality consists largely of boredom. (Zefram Cochrane, “Metamorphosis”)
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. Immortality may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
Man, whoever you may be, you can still conceive high thoughts for yourself. You can bind thy fleeting life to God, and to immortality.
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.
