“I have Immortal longings in me.”

“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death”

Anne Rice The Tale of the Body Thief

“But these days
Of visible poetry have long been past!—
No fear that the young hunter may profane
The haunt of some immortal;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“[From Lee]: I believe that the mind may make its own immortality : thought is the spiritual part of existence; and so long as my mind influences others, so long as my thoughts remain behind, so long shall my spirit be conscious and immortal. The body may perish—not so the essence which survives in the living and lasting page.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator

“Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“I don't believe in the anthropomorphic God. … I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“So long as you are ready to die for Humanity, the life of your country is immortal.”

Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) Italian patriot, politician and philosopher