Joseph Addison Quotes About Immortality

Quotes about: Immortality

• It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

  Joseph Addison

  Plato, Fall, Men

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

• The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Crush, Easter

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.288

• The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Secret, Mind

• How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Men, Perfection

  Joseph Addison (1842). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.171

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