Peter Thiel Quotes

Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

I show people how to build their own immortality device.

At this rate, I'll live forever.

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.

Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.

I would like to live forever if it was possible.

We want to live forever, and we're getting there.

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.

I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

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

Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.

Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.

One of my favorite books was 'The Book of Immortality' by Adam Leith Gollner, which talks about cheating death and life extension and frames with a story that David Copperfield finds a fountain of youth on an island he bought.