"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen

"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal." - Anatole France

"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine." - Socrates

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . .I want to achieve it through not dying." - WOODY ALLEN, quoted in Woody Allen and his Comedy by Eric Lax

"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." - HEYWOOD BROUN, Pieces of Hate

"Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - SUSAN ERTZ, Anger in the Sky

"Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality." - WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING, The Meaning of Immortality in Human Experience

"Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope." - ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, quoted in Chicago Times

"We feel and know that we are eternal." - BENEDICT DE SPINOZA, Ethics

"Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever?
Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all?
This is a miracle; and that no more."
- EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

"All men think all men mortal, but themselves." - EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

"The embodied one within the body of everyone, O Bharata, is ever undestroyable. Therefore you should not grieve for any being." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna