Greatness! Extraordinariness! Conquest of the world and immortality of the name! What good was all the happiness of people eternally unknown compared with this goal?

So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as ‘The Original.’ In fact, it isn’t.

There is no death. The body withers but the spirit still lives.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day’s end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering

Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn’t mean that I’m immune. It doesn’t mean that I’m immortal

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive.

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one’s age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.