Immortality Quest Quotes

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

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

To become immortal, and then to die.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

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

Compete with the immortals