The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty or terrestrial virtue to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot and all that we would not see.

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.

The stars shall fade away the sun himself Grow dim with age and nature sink in years But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth Unhurt amidst the wars of elements The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds.

When a noble life has prepared old age it is not decline that it reveals but the first days of immortality.