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"But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make good, Together there we can begin again In babyhood."

"Men are immortal till their work is done."

"I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life."

"Of such as he was, there be few on earth; Of such as he is, there are few in Heaven: And life is all the sweeter that he lived, And all he loved more sacred for his sake: And Death is all the brighter that he died, And Heaven is all the happier that he's there."

"Sunt aliquid Manes; letum non omnia finit. Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos."

"What a world were this, How unendurable its weight, if they Whom Death hath sundered did not meet again!"

"I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore."

"Ah, Christ, that it were possible, For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be."

"Facte nova virtute, puer; sic itur ad astra."

"Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter."

"Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither."

"Immortality! We bow before the very term. Immortality! Before it reason staggers, calculation reclines her tired head, and imagination folds her weary pinions. Immortality! It throws open the portals of the vast forever; it puts the crown of deathless destiny upon every human brow; it cries to every uncrowned king of men, "Live forever, crowned for the empire of a deathless destiny!""

"Only the feeble resign themselves to final death and substitute some other desire for the longing for personal immortality. In the strong the zeal for perpetuity overrides the doubt of realizing it, and their superabundance of life overflows upon the other side of death."

"There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care."

"They ask us who are we, vile earthworms, to pretend to immortality; in virtue of what? wherefore? by what right? "In virtue of what?" you ask; and I reply, In virtue of what do we now live? "Wherefore?"—and wherefore do we now exist? "By what right?"—and by what right are we? To exist is just as gratuitous as to go on existing for ever."

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

"Look, here's the warrant, Claudio, for thy death: 'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight tomorrow Thou must be made immortal."

"Whatever is always in motion is immortal."

"I hold it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god."

"For spirits that live throughout Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die."

"The fame of the brave outlives him; his portion is immortality. What more flattering homage could we pay to the manes of Paul Jones, than to swear on his tomb to live or to die free? It is the vow, it is the watch-word of every Frenchman."

"Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss."

"It And her immortal part with angels lives."

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

"I long to believe in immortality. I shall never be able to bid you an entire farewell. If I am destined to be happy with you here — how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality — I wish to live with you forever."

"He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead."

"Most men live in order to make a living; when they have that, they live in order to make a good living; when they have that, they die. … This comment can be developed into a demonstration of human immortality. This demonstration could be stated as follows: It is the destiny of every human being to make a good living. If he dies before he does that, he has not fulfilled his destiny. … But if he makes a good living, then he has achieved his destiny, but the destiny of making a good living cannot be that he is supposed to die, but, on the contrary, that he is supposed to live well on his good living—ergo, man is immortal."

"Why was I born if it wasn't forever?"

"'Tis this which makes The best assurance of our promised heaven: This triumph intellect has over death— Our words yet live on others' lips; our thoughts Actuate others. Can that man be dead Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind?"

"And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives."

"For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?"

"They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy."

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

"If what I assume is true, it is still excellent to be convinced of it, but if there is nothing after death, I will at least during the time before my death be less burdensome to my companions because of complaints, and furthermore this folly of mine will not last long—for that would indeed be an evil—but in a short time will vanish."

"“That’s the problem with immortality,” mused Jack. “You never live long enough to get there.”"

"Death must be an evil—and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?"

"And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well."

"All ends in one eclipse, Sunshine or snows, We gain a grave, and afterwards—God knows."

"The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but something of it remains which is eternal.... We feel and know by experience that we are eternal."

"The anxiety about death is met in two ways. The reality of death is excluded from daily life to the highest possible degree. The dead are not allowed to show that they are dead; they are transformed into a mask of the living. The other and more important way of dealing with death is the belief in a continuation of life after death, called the immortality of the soul. This is not a Christian and hardly a Platonic doctrine. Christianity speaks of resurrection and eternal life, Platonism of a participation of the soul in the transtemporal sphere of essences. But the modern idea of immortality means a continuous participation in the productive process."

"If it is necessary that each sentient being must have the possibility of achieving an overwhelming good, then it is clear that there must be some form of life after earthly death. Despite the many pointers to the existence of God, theism would be falsified if physical death was the end, for then there could be no justification for the existence of this world. However, if one supposes that every sentient being has an endless existence, which offers the prospect of supreme happiness, it is surely true that the sorrows and troubles of this life will seem very small by comparison. Immortality, for animals as well as humans, is a necessary condition of any acceptable theodicy; that necessity, together with all the other arguments for God, is one of the main reasons for believing in immortality."

"A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude."

"An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; Legions of angels can't confine me there."

"'Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs."

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

"A good man never dies."

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

"Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem."

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

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."