Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.

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.

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

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

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

To have died once is enough.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

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

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

I am scared of death.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

When you dead, you dead.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)