Lady Gregory Quotes

When God decides its time, I guess he'll come for us.

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.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

I believe in life after death.

As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

My wife is already in Heaven.

She died praying that she might die.