The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
Opposition is dangerous to immortality.
We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things. . . . We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.
Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.
Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.
It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.
I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
Enlightenment means that you're in love with all of life, with not only immortality but mortality.
A book is the only immortality.
A man's immortality can be found in his children.
That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!
Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.
Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.
We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.