
Source: The Venetian Bracelet (1829), Lines of Life
Dryad Song (1900)
Context: I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Hope floods my heart with delight!
Running on air mad with life dizzy, reeling,
Upward I mount, — faith is sight, life is feeling,
Hope is the day-star of might!
Source: The Venetian Bracelet (1829), Lines of Life
“I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.”
Source: Death Bringer
The joke about immortality also appears in On Being Funny (1975)
In an interview in Rolling Stone magazine from April 9, 1987, Allen said "Someone once asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people, and I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment."
Source: The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader (1993)
The Book of My Life (1930)
Context: I have accustomed my features always to assume an expression quite contrary to my feelings; thus I am able to feign outwardly, yet within know nothing of dissumulation. This habit is easy if compared to the practice of hoping for nothing, which I have bent my efforts toward acquiring for fifteen successive years, and have at last succeeded.<!--Ch. 13
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
“Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.”
Source: Northanger Abbey