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Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

— Peter Ustinov

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

— Bill Cosby

I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality.

— Craig Venter

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

— Egon Schiele

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

— Pindar

The first requisite for immortality is death.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

— Herb Caen

✗Opposing Perspectives

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

— Christopher Hitchens

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe