Emily Dickinson Quotes

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

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

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed the school where children played, Their lessons scarcely done; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.

(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.

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

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

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

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

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

I would like immortality.

There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die. Well, why don't they die?

I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.