Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

Und dasTotsein ist mu« hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu« rt. And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity.

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.