Theodore Parker Quotes

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

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.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

I shall not altogether die.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

I shall not completely die.

Not all of me shall die.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras. "Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever." "Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

My audience is going to die before I do.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

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

I don't intend to die.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.