I will not speak falsely and say to you: ‘Do not grieve for me when I go.’ I have loved my children and tried to be a good mother and it is right that my...

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient...

He was humbled by her infinite love toward him – it shone through even in his afterlife.

When you die, you don’t.

To Hell we have already been.

Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we’re stuck here until we die and either...

That’s what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays

I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make...

Tell them stories.

By his [God’s] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me, I will endeavor to promote the welfare of those around me,...

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Small as a pea. Wider than the sea. This is where you and I came to be.

Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked...

We don’t want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

I don’t know anything about the afterlife because I haven’t been there yet.

A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of...

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies? This beyond is decidedly uncertain, quite vague and...

How much would it be? I mean, how much do you charge?

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

I make a joke of it, but… but I’m afraid of death.” He straightened up and turned to look into Joseph’s eyes. Joseph saw the fear there and was shocked by the intensity of it....

It has been suggested that the color of an aura can reveal characteristics about the generating source.

We all end up dying in the end. It’s just a question of how and when.

Now love doesn’t stop at death – or if it does, it’s a pretty poor sort of love! In fact, grief could almost be defined as the form love takes when the object of love...

Yes, stop your beliefs for a few moments now and then and Be-Life.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well...

When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s something within me that’s ready to believe in life after death. And it’s not the least bit interested...

It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory.

And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort

Eternity was a restless bitch.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

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.

Natural law has decreed it so. Isn’t death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe the flow splashes into a bottomless pit past that blind turn.

You are dead- what am I speaking to?

How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of his various passions! He who should live soberly in all respects, who should...

IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE

What are those glorious dots? Those, dear one, are forget-me-nots!

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.

It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides, wishing the dream could have lasted forever, or at least much...

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

Endings are not always bad. Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife – a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an...

True spiritual love is not a feeble imitation and anticipation of death, but a triumph over death, not a separation of the immortal form from the mortal, of the eternal from the temporal, but a...

then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.

And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won’t see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we...

If there’s hell below, we’re all gonna go.

Perhaps the day will come when Western science is able to confirm the existence of immaterial forces and realms. Compelling research in the field of parapsychology indirectly points to this possibility, yet most people in...

You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will.

The myth of purgatory is an allegory, a projection, from the present on to the future. This is why purgatory appeals to the imagination. It is our story. It is where we are now. If...