I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Immortality Quotes
Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
Men long for an afterlife in which there is apparently nothing to do but delight in heaven’s wonders.
The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
No individual exists forever; why should we expect our species to be immortal? Man, said Nietzsche, is a rope stretched between the animal and the superhuman à a rope across the abyss. That will be a noble purpose to have served.
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.
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.
