William Penn Quotes

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

I believe in life after death.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

I actually do believe in life after death.

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.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

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.

In the ordinary, everyday understandings of the words involved, to say that someone survived death is to contradict yourself; while to assert that all of us live forever is to assert a manifest falsehood, the flat contrary of a universally known truth: namely, the truth that all human beings are mortal. For when, after some disaster, the 'dead' and the 'survivors' have both been listed, what logical space remains for a third category?

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.