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It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.

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.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.

On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom; I shall emerge one day.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

A good man never dies.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.

Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee, But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun Thou springest from bondage and leavest behind thee A name which before thee no mortal hath won.

'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.