Benjamin Franklin Quotes

My deeply secret favorite movie is 'Meet Joe Black.'

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

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

There is no "next" after you are dead and gone from your own world.

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

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death.

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.

You'll understand when I'm dead.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

When you die it's the end of your life.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.

When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.

When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.

Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.