Immortality
Unending life, especially the survival of the soul after death or the resurrection of the body.
Works to read
- Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1788 · Great Books
- The Homeric Hymns by Anonymous (Homeric), 7th–6th century BC
- The Early Christian Creeds by Various, 2nd-5th centuries CE
- Homilies on the Gospel of John by Augustine of Hippo, c. 406-420 CE
- Holy Sonnet X: "Death, be not proud" by John Donne, written c. 1609-1610; published 1633
- Sermons and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne, 1624 / 1631
- Collected Poems 1934–1952 by Dylan Thomas, 1952
- Poems, in Two Volumes by William Wordsworth, 1807
Passages
I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
— Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
— Emily Dickinson, Poems: First, Second and Third Series
There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.
— George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie
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