“I have Immortal longings in me.”
Variant: Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me
Source: Antony and Cleopatra
“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”
Source: To Love This Life: Quotations By Helen Keller
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“I have Immortal longings in me.”
Cleopatra VII
(-69–-30 BC) last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act V, (1623)
Miguel de Unamuno
(1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), III : The Hunger of Immortality
Context: I am dreaming...? Let me dream, if this dream is my life. Do not awaken me from it. I believe in the immortal origin of this yearning for immortality, which is the very substance of my soul. But do I really believe in it...? And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the question, for it is to ask the reason of the reason, the end of the end, the principle of the principle.
“The Theophilanthropists believe in the existence of God, and the immortality of the soul.”
Thomas Paine
(1737–1809) English and American political activist
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”
Socrates
(-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Harlan Ellison
(1934–2018) American writer
As quoted in Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, & Other Fields (1982) by Ann Evory
Context: I talk about the things people have always talked about in stories: pain, hate, truth, courage, destiny, friendship, responsibility, growing old, growing up, falling in love, all of these things. What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads. I try to go into those places in me that contain the cauldrous. I want to dip up the fire, and I want to put it on paper. The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work. … It is a love/hate relationship I have with the human race. I am an elitist, and I feel that my responsibility is to drag the human race along with me — that I will never pander to, or speak down to, or play the safe game. Because my immortal soul will be lost.