“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
“Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me”
Albert Einstein
“Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.”
Peter Ustinov
“Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles and Aeneas”
Jonathan Swift
“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality”
George Santayana
“Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.”
Phyllis McGinley
“The great lie about immortality destroys every kind of reason, every kind of naturalness in the instincts.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
