Muriel Spark Quotes

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

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

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.

Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

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.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

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

Old age is the verdict of life.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.