Quotes about Immortality

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was comforted by a piece of poetry given to her by a friend: They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind: In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Resurrection. Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding. (SH 593:9)

If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules - since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but simply of death itself, seen from a different angle.

God's intention is not to let death have its way with us. If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls leave behind their mortal bodies, then death still rules—since that is a description not of the defeat of death but simply of death itself, seen from one angle.