Quotes about Immortality
If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.
— William Faulkner
I wish to go on living even after my death.
— Anne Frank
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
— Joseph Addison
Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on…Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than before.
— James Sire
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger
— Albert Einstein
Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.
— Stanley Hauerwas
The pressed clay or "dust" of Adam has then become the immortal diamond that is Christ.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Remember, you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.
— Rick Warren
William James said, "The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
— Rick Warren
God has … planted eternity in the human heart. ECCLESIASTES 3:11 (NLT) Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
— Rick Warren
Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
— John Quincy Adams