Sheilah Graham Quotes

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I didn't know what my fate was as far as being alive.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

You never know how much time you'll have.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

We are all going to die one day. Everything else, my friend, I am not sure.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

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.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is more or less connected with the infinite, and what we call eternity.