George Santayana Quotes

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I don't believe in death.

We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.

Working on 'Beyond,' I try to give an explanation to death that's different from the explanation religions have to give. So I made up my own story around all this and how life and death and souls work.

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.

There is no death. The body withers but the spirit still lives.