To her audience Janis Joplin has remained a symbol artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes and are upon a footing with them.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear by childish faith and by cowardice.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.

On the basis of biological sociological and historical knowledge we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay but the sum total of individual achievement for better or worse lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

To be immortal is commonplace except for man all creatures are immortal for they are ignorant of death what is divine terrible incomprehensible is to know that one is immortal.

The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Death gives us sleep eternal youth and immortality.

Man as long as he lives is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later God wins.

Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

But I think it's more that when you're young you're invincible you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing to be honest.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.