Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

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.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

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.

Death is the Graduation of the Soul

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

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.