All 25 Uses of
immortal
in
Steppenwolf
- To them, too, however, the other thought has come that man is perhaps not merely a half-rational animal but a child of the gods and destined to immortality.†
- He may encounter the Immortals.†
- He has a suspicion of his allotted place in the world, a suspicion of the Immortals, a suspicion that he may meet himself face to face; and he is aware of the existence of that mirror in which he has such bitter need to look and from which he shrinks in such deathly fear.†
- As for the way to true manhood, the way to the immortals, he has, it is true, an inkling of it and starts upon it now and then for a few hesitating steps and pays for them with much suffering and many pangs of loneliness.†
- But as for striving with assurance, in response to that supreme demand, towards the genuine manhood of the spirit, and going the one narrow way to immortality, he is deeply afraid of it.†
- He knows too well that it leads to still greater sufferings, to proscription, to the last renunciation, perhaps to the scaffold, and even though the enticement of immortality lies at the journey's end, he is still unwilling to suffer all these sufferings and to die all these deaths.†
- He is resolved to forget that the desperate clinging to the self and the desperate clinging to life are the surest way to eternal death, while the power to die, to strip one's self naked, and the eternal surrender of the self bring immortality with them.†
- When he worships his favorites among the immortals, Mozart, perchance, he always looks at him in the long run through bourgeois eyes.†
- No, we are speaking of man in the highest sense, of the end of the long road to true manhood, of kingly men, of the immortals.†
- Were he already among the immortals—were he already there at the goal to which his difficult path seems to be taking him, with what amazement he would look back to all this coming and going, all this indecision and wild zig-zag trail.†
- At the very last, however, on the last verge of consciousness in the moment of falling asleep, the remarkable passage in the Steppenwolf pamphlet which deals with the immortals flashed through me.†
- With it came the enchanting recollection that several times, the last quite recently, I had felt near enough to the immortals to share in one measure of old music their cool, bright, austere and yet smiling wisdom.†
- We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.†
- Besides the music that is actually played at the moment, there is the immortal music that lives on even when it is not actually being played.†
- There were moments when I felt with a glow that I had only to snatch up my scattered images and raise my life as Harry Haller and as the Steppenwolf to the unity of one picture, in order to enter myself into the world of imagination and be immortal.†
- I was forced to recall my dream of Goethe and that vision of the old wiseacre when he laughed so inhumanly and played his joke on me in the fashion of the immortals.†
- For the first time I understood Goethe's laughter, the laughter of the immortals.†
- The immortals, living their life in timeless space, enraptured, re-fashioned and immersed in a crystalline eternity like ether, and the cool starry brightness and radiant serenity of this world outside the earth—whence was all this so intimately known?†
- I heard the immortals laughing.†
- They ran: THE IMMORTALS Ever reeking from the vales of earth Ascends to us life's fevered surge, Wealth's excess, the rage of dearth, Smoke of death meals on the gallow's verge; Greed without end, imprisoned air; Murderers' hands, usurers' hands, hands of prayer; Exhales in foetid breath the human swarm Whipped on by fear and lust, blood raw, blood warm, Breathing blessedness and savage heats, Eating itself and spewing what it eats, Hatching war and lovely art, Decking out with idiot…†
- You will learn to laugh like the immortals yet.†
- With an awful and an iron clang it rang through the ghostly house, coming from the other world, from the immortals.†
- These immortals put up with a rarefied and glacial atmosphere.†
- I was not among the immortals, not yet.†
- Yes, with Mozart and the immortals.
*immortals = people of enduring fame
Definition:
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(immortal) living or existing forever
or:
someone famous throughout history
or:
someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god