Quotes about Immortality
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
- John Milton
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
- John Milton
Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.
- Julie Andrews
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
- Cicero
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