Jose Rizal Quotes

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.'

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

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.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

'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.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

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.

I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

If you die, you're not a failure.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

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?

She died praying that she might die.

Death is the final wake-up call.