#immortality

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#immortality #me #mean #more #quality

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality. ↗

— George Wald

#history #ideal #immortality #men #pursued

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#continued #creativity #current #era #immortality

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#immortality #itself #marks #mathematics #off

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#desirable #guess #i #images #immortality

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#circle-of-life #death #immortality #life #mortality

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. ↗

— Herb Caen

#go #immortality #only #tends #the only thing

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#frailty #immortality #life #mortality #shortness-of-life

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#assured #else #error #fails #immortality

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#doing #doing good #good #good things #immortality