Charles Dickens Quotes

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

I wish to go on living even after my death.

Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

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

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.