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

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

To a short liver, increase of years is only an increase in sorrow, but to a long liver every extra year is a prospect which forces him to stretch his faculties to the utmost to face it.-- Bernard Shaw, "The Tragedy of the Elderly Gentleman"

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

A good man never dies.-- Callimachus, "Epigrams"

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame.  I want to achieve it by not dying.-- Leo Durocher