Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.

- Michael Vance

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

- Thomas Alva Edison

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

- Peter Ustinov

Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

My life closed twice before its close;
????It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
????A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
????As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
????And all we need of hell.

- Emily Dickinson

'Tis vast—as our Capacity—
As fair—as our idea—
To Him of adequate desire
No further 'tis, than Here—

- Emily Dickinson

What is—"Paradise"—
Who live there—
Are they "Farmers"—
Do they "hoe"—
Do they know that this is "Amherst"—
And that I—am coming—too—

- Emily Dickinson

Why—do they shut Me out of Heaven?
Did I sing—too loud?
But—I can say a little "Minor"
Timid as a Bird!

- Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death --

He kindly stopped for me --

The Carriage held but just Ourselves --

And Immortality.

- Emily Dickinson

Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.

- George Bernard Shaw

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

- Amy Tan

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Woody Allen

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

- Albert Camus

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

- Susan Ertz

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

- Isaac Asimov



The love that once was born can not die
For it has become part of us, of our life,
Woven into the very texture of our being.
Each of us would wish to leave some part of ourselves,
So here and now we bear witness to the one we knew in life,
Who now in death bequeaths a subtle part, precious and beloved,
Which will be with us in truth and beauty,
In dignity and courage and love
To the end of our days.

- Algernon Black



We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

- Harriet Martineau