“Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven.”

“… a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”

“Old man! ’tis not so difficult to die.”

“One of the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die.”

“Death cannot come
To him untimely who is fit to die;
The less of this cold world, the more of heaven;
The briefer life, the earlier immortality.”

“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.”

“Tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.”

“To be immortal and then die”

“Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven,
Although on earth ’tis planted,
Where its honours blow,
While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven
Which die the while they glow.”

“Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.”