Faulkner William 1897-1962
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but
because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Ingalls Brian
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests
decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.
Keats John 1795-1821
‘Ode to a Nightingale'
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown.
Landor Walter Savage 1775-1864
‘To Ianthe'
‘Tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.
Marlowe Christopher 1564-1593
Doctor Faustus
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!
Come Helen, come give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips,
And all is dross that is not Helena.
Pindar 518-438 BC
Pythian Odes
My soul, do not seek immortal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
Imitations of Horace
Shakespeare (whom you and ev'ry play-house bill
Style the divine, the matchless, what you will)
For gain, not glory, winged his roving flight,
And grew immortal in his own despite.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Antony and Cleopatra
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have
Immortal longings in me.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Othello
O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part
of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Socrates 469-399 BC
In Plato - Phaedo
It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable,
and our souls will actually exist in another world.
Allen Woody
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Brooke Rupert 1887-1915
‘The Dead'
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
That men call age; and those that would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
Dickinson Emily 1830-1886
‘Because I could not stop for Death'
Because I could not stop Death -
He kindly stopped for me -
The Carriage held but just Ourselves -
And Immortality.
Dostoevsky Fedor 1821-1881
The Brothers Karamazov
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.
Fadiman Clifton
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.
Heine Heinrich 1797-1856
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord
for immortality in addition to it all.
Keats John 1795-1821
Letter to J.H. Reynolds
There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.