Anne Bancroft Quotes

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

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

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

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

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.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

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!

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.