Lydia M. Child Quotes

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

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

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

I don't believe in death.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

I believe in life after death.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

I believe in life after death.