Quotes
Quotes about Mortality
'T is immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.
We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Who then to frail mortality shall trust
But limns on water, or but writes in dust.
To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
How gladly would I meet
Mortality my sentence, and be earth
Insensible! how glad would lay me down
As in my mother's lap!
How fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone.
But those which soonest take their flight
Are the most exquisite and strong,--
Like angels' visits, short and bright;
Mortality's too weak to bear them long.
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
Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'T is the divinity that stirs within us;
'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.
Where music dwells
Lingering and wandering on as loth to die,
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof
That they were born for immortality.
He ne'er is crown'd
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead.
Mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress. To those who fully admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appear so dreadful.
All, all for immortality,
Love like the light silently wrapping all.
Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.
There is no virtue if there is no immortality.
Every man yearns for immortality
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
