Jacques Ellul Quotes

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

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.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

We will never conquer death.

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

The only secret people keep is immortality.

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

If I could only live another century!

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.