Definition of Immortality

Immortality

The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul.

Exemption from oblivion; perpetuity; as, the immortality of fame.

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Immortality Quotations

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
Swami Vivekananda

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

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

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

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.
Bill Cosby

For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily Dickinson

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King

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

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

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Blaise Pascal

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

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
James Joyce

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Daniel Webster

The only greatness for man is immortality.
James Dean

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Norman Cousins

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
Marshall McLuhan

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

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
Charles Baudelaire

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

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Immortality Translations

immortality in German is Unsterblichkeit
immortality in Spanish is inmortalidad

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