Emily Dickinson Quotes

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

Death is only passing through God's other door.

You live you die and death not ends it.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence.

I look through the grave into heaven.

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

And what shall we know of this life on earth after death? The dissolution of our timebound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Rather, does the little finger know itself a member of the hand.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

In the course of our eternal existence, we spend infinitely more time in the spirit world on the other side than we spend in the human world on earth.