Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take.

I've always thought what was I before I was this and then what will I be when I leave here. I really had a hard time always accepting that at some point I'm just going to turn to dust and ashes and never be again and that the journey would stop. I believe that we are souls, kind of like a version of what our movie presents, and we come here again and again until we arrive at our highest evolution, and what happens after that I don't know.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point.

I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

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.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

For the dead there are no more toils.

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

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.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.

Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.

Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

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

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

Death is the Graduation of the Soul