Barbi Benton Quotes

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

Nobody on this planet will ever be able to answer the question, 'What happens when you die?'

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

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

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

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.

Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life.

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

No one knows when the man up above wants to call your name.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes.

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.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.

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

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there