Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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.

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

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

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

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

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

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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

The first requisite for immortality is death.

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.

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.