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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Some for renown on scraps of learning dote And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal few really ASK. On the contrary they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
Imagination the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature should be limited. In order to enjoy life we should not enjoy it too much.
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.
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man with an ability to grasp the infinite to exist only for a day! No no man was made for immortality.
The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.
Friendship like the immortality of the soul is too good to be believed.
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.
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.
I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.
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