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.