Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
Immortality Quotes
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.
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?
Did He raise a dead man to life? Why, tens of thousands of dead men and women have been raised to life according to all the stories and all the traditions. Was this the only case? All Europe is filled with miracles of that sort, the Catholic church performing miracles almost to the present time. […]
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.
