„He ne’er is crown’dWith immortality, who fears to followWhere airy voices lead.“

— John Keats

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„Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be…“
— Margaret Atwood
„We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.“
— Cassandra Clare
„You want to have proven to you that the soul is imperishable and immortal, and you think that the philosopher who is confident in death has but a vain and foolish confidence, if he thinks that he will fare better than one who has led another sort of life, in the world below, unless he can prove this; and you say that the strength and divinity of the soul, and of her existence prior to our becoming men, does not necessarily imply her immortality. …For any man, who is not devoid of natural feeling, has reason to fear, if he has no knowledge or proof of the soul's immortality. That is what I suppose you to say, Cebes, which I designedly repeat, in order that nothing may escape us…“
— Socrates
„Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.“
— C.G. Jung