{"id":3516,"date":"2015-03-14T11:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2015-03-14T11:36:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T18:36:22","slug":"quotes-about-immortality-from-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/quotes-about-immortality-from-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes About Immortality from Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Mysterious Island<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Jules Verne<\/a><\/p>\n

What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul’s impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be it what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/a><\/p>\n

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only escapes by transformation.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Daniel Deronda<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Eliot<\/a><\/p>\n

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Othello<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n

“So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated ’till this mortal shall put on immortality.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Jane Eyre<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charlotte Bronte<\/a><\/p>\n

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