Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.
You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
I fell in love with athletics watching the 1980 Moscow Olympics, aged seven. I thought: 'These people aren't human, they're immortal.'
As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.
The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.
danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.
Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.
I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.
The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood's potential as a filmmaker.
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Figures dark beneath their loads pass down the far bank of the river, rendered immortal by the streak of sunset upon their shoulders
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.
It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.
Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
Some persons choose, rather than stay in immortal bliss all the time, to come back for others.
For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.
When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.
Deep in the frozen regions of the north,
A goddess violated brought thee forth,
Immortal Liberty!
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.
They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.
One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, we are saying, 'No mas!' We will educate students and then promote them, not the reverse
Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.
In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.
what if a much of a which of a wind
gives the truth to summer's lie;
bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
and yanks immortal stars awry?
But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.
Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?
Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.
For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty
I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.
Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse
What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul - joyous, eternal.
You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction.
All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow,
Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.
The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.
Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade,
On that confusion which thy death has made.
The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.
The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know...
The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.
Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms
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