Man, whoever you may be, you can still conceive high thoughts for yourself. You can bind thy fleeting life to God, and to immortality.
Immortality Quotes
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.
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
If we had the offer of immortality here below, who would accept this sorrowful gift?
One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
For me the only true success, the only true greatness, lies in immortality.
Constancy is never the virtue of a mortal; To be constant one must be immortal.
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.
