“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
Woody Allen
“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
Emily Dickinson
“Immortality - a fate worse than death.”
Edgar A. Shoaff
“If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no more than the death of any other person”
Thomas Paine
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing”
Benjamin Franklin
“Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.”
“[On his deathbed:] Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved”
Mark Twain