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.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

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.

The fear of death often proves mortal and sets people on methods to save their Lives which infallibly destroy them.

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 people renounce all for one goal the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

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.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty or terrestrial virtue to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot and all that we would not see.

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

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.

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.

I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

Of all our possessions wisdom alone is imortal.