Quotes about Immortality
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
— Paulo Coelho
If they do kill me I shall never die another death.
— Abraham Lincoln
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
— William Faulkner
He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
— William Faulkner
Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills
— William Hazlitt
Words are the only things that last for ever.
— William Hazlitt
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
— William James
If life ends at the grave, then it makes no ultimate difference whether you live as a Stalin or as a Mother Teresa. Since your destiny is ultimately unrelated to your behavior, you may as well just live as you please. As the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky put it: "If there is no immortality … then all things are permitted.
— William Lane Craig
I shall not live 'till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
— John Donne
I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift... Of expressing all that is in me.
— Anne Frank
What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
— John Milton
God alone is immortal, imperishable.
— Mahatma Gandhi