#immortal

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#dirty #doing #enough #i #i am

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#assured #else #error #fails #immortality

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations. ↗

— John Banville

#death #grief #immortality #life-goes-on #loss

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. ↗

— Karl Marx

#art #confession #everywhere #immortal #movement

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ↗

— Pindar

#childhood #graceful #honorable #immortality #old

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#everything #immortality #insatiable #lies #life

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#apply #contend #cry #die #dispute

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#creatures #death #divine #except #ignorant

Immortality is a by-product of good work. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#good #good work #immortality #work

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

— Peter Ustinov

#form #immortality #only #sure