One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive
Friedrich Nietzsche – Immortality
To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler – Immortality
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Goethe – Life, Immortality
I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this.
The end of man
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. 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.
