Michael Ende Quotes

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

If Heaven is up, I'm going. I know I'm right in my heart. This world is not my home. This life will soon be gone, and, one day, I'll spread my wings, as an angel, and fly away.

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

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

The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

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

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

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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

At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.