Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death

Famous quotes containing the words give me, give, immortality and/or death:

“Give me a thrill, says the reader,
Give me a kick;
I don’t care how you succeed, or
What subject you pick.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“If I asked her master he’d give me a cask a day;
But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may
The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)

“...there is death in the pot!”
—Bible: Hebrew, 2 Kings 4:40.