“I don't believe in the anthropomorphic God. … I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.”
Playboy interview (1996)
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“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”
Source: To Love This Life: Quotations By Helen Keller
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality
Context: I am dreaming...? Let me dream, if this dream is my life. Do not awaken me from it. I believe in the immortal origin of this yearning for immortality, which is the very substance of my soul. But do I really believe in it...? And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the question, for it is to ask the reason of the reason, the end of the end, the principle of the principle.
The joke about immortality also appears in On Being Funny (1975)
In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine from April 9, 1987, Allen said "Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people, and I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment."
Source: The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)
“The Theophilanthropists believe in the existence of God, and the immortality of the soul.”
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
“I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.”
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially… I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" ["Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote"]
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)
Fire from Heaven (1969)