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.
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.
No, no! The energy of life may be
Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
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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.
I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be
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I long to believe in immortality. . . . 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.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the
spirit shall return unto God who read more
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the
spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of
the evidence of existence is necessarily read more
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.
A book is the only immortality.
A book is the only immortality.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope
Immortality - a fate worse than death.
Immortality - a fate worse than death.
