Quotes about Transcendence
Someday death will take us to another star.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I think it a splendid saying of Victor Hugo's, "les religions passent, mais Dieu demure" [religions pass away, but God remains];
— Vincent Van Gogh
There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.
— Virginia Woolf
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
— Khalil Gibran
Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip
— Charles Spurgeon
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
— CS Lewis
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
— Thomas Watson
Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
— John Milton