If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied.
'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently.
'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life