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- Yet some there be that by due steps aspire
- To lay their just hands on that golden key
- That opes the palace of Eternity.
The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD, Concluding Unscientific Postscript
It's immortality we crave ... that museum of ten thousand things stockpiled beyond our fleeting earthly hours.
ROBERT CORDING, "Reading Donne"
People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.
JANE AUSTEN, Sense and Sensibility
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
MILAN KUNDERA, Immortality
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.
SUSAN GLASPELL, Little Masks
Most children feel immortal--they have no sense that they're ever going to die. For a child, even growing up is something that's barely comprehensible.
- All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom,
- The sun himself must die,
- Before this mortal shall assume
- Its immortality.
THOMAS CAMPBELL, The Last Man
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