In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
Clarence Darrow

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
Charles Kuralt

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
E. T. Bell

Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature is the immortality of speech.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
Mortimer Adler

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Hu Shih

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
Sylvester Stallone

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
Albert J. Nock

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
Arianna Huffington

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
Albert J. Nock

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
Francis I

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
Joan D. Vinge