The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.
No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary. . . Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.
I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.