Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

He that lives to live forever, never fears dying.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

Death is a reality, and one day I'm not going to be here anymore, and whatever's next might not be that bad either.

It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.

Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

I have good hope that there is something after death.

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.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

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.

We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity.

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

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.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

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.