Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

Always remember this. Television, fame, money - listen, here is a news flash for America. Fame cannot remove your sin. And all of the money you ever amass cannot raise you from the dead.

Naked a man comes into the world and naked he leaves it, after all is said and done he leaves nothing except the good deeds he leaves behind.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.

A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?

No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things