- "Being born is not a crime, so why must it carry a sentence of death?"
- "Since thou hast no benefactor in this world, thy having one in the next world will be all the more pleasant."
- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment."
- "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
- "The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever."
- "A man looking onward to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude."
- "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."
- "We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
- "We want to live forever, and we're getting there."
See also: Death