Immortality Quotes

I want to go on living even after my death!

I used to believe in forever… but forever was too good to be true.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

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

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

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.

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.