Anne Sexton Quotes

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

Death is one dream out of another flowing.

I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!

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.

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

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

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

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

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

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.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

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

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

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.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

I don't believe in death.