“Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark begind.”
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Brandon Lee1
American actor and martial artist 1965–1993Related quotes
“Do not yearn, O my soul, for immortal life!
Use to the utmost
the skill that is yours.”
Pindar (-517–-437 BC) Ancient Greek poet
Pythian 3, line 61-62.
Variant translation: Seek not, my soul, immortal life, but make the most of the resources that are within your reach.
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 314.
Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Anshul Chaturvedi
Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882–1962) Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India
Convocation address to the students in 1956 in page=89
Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade by Pravina Bhim Sain
“What is your greatest ambition in life?'
'To become immortal… and then die.”
Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic
Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland
Source: Misattributed, P. 243. in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). This is actually a quote from The golden chain; or, The Christian graces illustrated and enforced (1855) by John Harvey
“The great in Evil, and the great in [Goodness|Good]]—both leave an immortal residue.”
Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean
Part 3, Chapter 12 (p. 181)
Nifft the Lean (1982)