It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with modern man is not so much that he situates himself in...

Lucien studied the wine in his goblet. “You don’t hold on to power by being everyone’s friend. And among the faeries, lesser and High Fae alike, a firm hand is needed. We’re too powerful, and...

Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her...

He doesn’t have a soul?” she shrieked, horrified.”That explains why he’s such a dick,” Tree muttered.

When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality.

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself “Dijkstra would not have liked this”,...

If I should die,” said I to myself, “I have left no immortal work behind me – nothing to make my friends proud of my memory – but I have lov’d the principle of beauty...

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won’t matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

The faery lords are immortal. Those who have songs ballads and stories written about them never die. Belief worship imagination we were born of the dreams and fears of mortals and if we are remembered...

This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk.””Maybe both of us have got a piece of him,” said Lee. Maybe that’s what immortality is.

Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?

After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.

Problems are mortal. Solutions live forever.

Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality—

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.

I would live forever if I could, but not like this.

This is the gift and the sorrow of the Athanate; to see your loves pass before you like the days of summer while your heart still beats. To keep your vigil in the shadows and...

If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules – since that is a description, not of the defeat of death, but...

The only true immortality lies in one’s children.[Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger]

The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living beyond those whom he would have given much to keep.

The nature of immortality is a mystery,’ he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.’ But everything I know of writing and reading tells me that this is true. I...

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting,...

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.

…love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only–and best–answer to death is loving. Loving.

Something tells me that immortality is monstrous.

We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God’s plans for our lives…then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last

The only way to find out if you’re immortal is to make it to the end of time and look around to see if you’re still alive. Until you’ve done that, all you know is...

The problem with living forever, of course, is you have to live forever before you know you’re immortal…or invincible. Even the gods, in this way, must always remain uncertain. Time trumps immortality just as uncertainty...

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

Creating is the closest thing to being immortal.

In my recollection, there have been many places and people I have been both blessed and cursed to know. Much joy and heartache can come from immortality, for loneliness can be lethal. I have unfortunately...

I think Ken should grow some balls and tell Barbie to piss off,” Matt said after Ashley waved an accusing finger in Darren’s (leg-puppy) face, then stomped off to a table beside a window.

Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.

It’s amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard...

You do not need God and Death as precursors to immortality. You need Life as a great fire, setting you and everything around you into a blaze.

If death is no longer a fear, we’re really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

(there is) no other means of escaping from one’s consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence – a disease which we must endeavor to cure...

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

Oh love let me embrace your path, to be remembered in kindness so I may remain immortal

The ‘tragedy’ of the slow growth of immortalism pertains mostly to them, and perhaps to you – not so much to me or to us, the committed immortalists. We already have made our arrangements for...

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And...

Home. That wonderful place I was lucky enough to revisit no matter how short a time finally realizing it’s not relegated to just one single place its wherever you make it.

The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.

We’re all trying to come to terms with our mortality. Well, except for me, because I plan to live forever through the miracle of cloning.

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.