Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality.
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.
It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.
But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.
But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.