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.

Resignation is what kills people. Once they’ve rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

I jumped between them holding my hands up in front of me to stop the onslaught. We would all sit down and figure this out as rational adults. We’d been adults for a century at...

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet...

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Holly steps back. Being warned about a ghost and seeing him are not the same. ‘What did they do to you?’Some of the Anchorites laugh. Hugo looks back at his long-ago lover. ‘They’-he looks about...

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Random search for data on … off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on ‘Intellectual Immoralities’ was circulated by a well-known institution. ‘Intellectual Immorality No. 4’ read: ‘Generalizing beyond one’s data’. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether...

Nothing is forever. Except atoms.

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not permitted to pass more than a fortnight in the same place. I have...

I’m wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it’s stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.

A book is the only immortality.

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief.”And you so intelligent!””Excuse me?” said...

Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.

The greatest sin you could commit is immortality, because it means that you’ll eventually commit all else.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.

He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.