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.

Bid then the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Love turns with a little indulgence to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.

Change alone is eternal perpetual immortal.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.