Source: Immortality
“I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.”
James K. Polk (1795–1849) American politician, 11th President of the United States (in office from 1845 to 1849)
Last words, spoken to his wife (15 June 1849); as quoted in Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells (2004) by Laura Ward.
“You have no idea how strong my love is!”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) English children's writer
Time And Love
Pan-Worship and Other Poems (1908)
Context: Dropt tears have hastened your decay
And brought you one step nigher death;
And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved,
The music of Love's golden breath
And seen the light in eyes that loved.
You think you hold the core and kernel
Of all the world beneath your crust,
Old dial? But when you lie in dust,
This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved.
Love is eternal.
“I came from nowhere, and shall be
Strong, steadfast, swift, eternally”
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener
"The Greater Cats"
Kings Daughter (1929)
Context: I came from nowhere, and shall be
Strong, steadfast, swift, eternally:
I am a lion, a stone, a tree,
And as the Polar star in me
Is fixed my constant heart on thee.
Ah, may I stay forever blind
With lions, tigers, leopards, and their kind.
“For life and love you gave to me
I give my thanks for eternity.”
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Dear Mum
Context: A guide to me in times of plight
A princess like a star so bright
For life would never have been the same
If I hadn’t of learned what small things came. So forgive me Mum just a little more
For not loving you so much before,
For life and love you gave to me
I give my thanks for eternity.
“I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Paraphrased variant: I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
At A Child's Grave (1882)
Context: No man, standing where the horizon of a life has touched a grave, has any right to prophesy a future filled with pain and tears. It may be that death gives all there is of worth to life. If those we press and strain against our hearts could never die, perhaps that love would wither from the earth. Maybe this common fate treads from out the paths between our hearts the weeds of selfishness and hate, and I had rather live and love where death is king, than have eternal life where love is not.
