Joseph Addison Quotes

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.

I am conscious of eternal life.

For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.

We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.

When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.