I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.Woody Allen
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.Albert Pine
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.Joseph Addison
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.Muriel Spark
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
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.Susan Ertz
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.Albert Pike
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.Emily Dickinson