Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

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

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Death is not just the end, it's the beginning.

When you pass from death into the life, you become a new person, and so everything you do flows from that.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.

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.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'