Heaven And Death Quotes

• It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sympathy, Children, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.391, Regnery Publishing

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Suicide, Dream

  Journal, 25 Oct. 1836

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• Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Grief, Heaven

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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• Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

  Helen Keller

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

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• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

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• Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Paradise On Earth, Creative, Heaven

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• Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Butterfly, Grieving

  "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sympathy, Regret, Fear

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Death, Rest In Peace

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• I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Death, Believe, Two Sides

  Norman Vincent Peale (1987). “The power of positive thinking”, Prentice Hall

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• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Grieving, Bereavement

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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• You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

  Edgar Cayce

  Heaven, Arms, Ifs

  Edgar Cayce (1986). “The Edgar Cayce Collection: Four Volumes in One”, Random House Value Publishing

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• It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Love, Life, Family

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• The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

  Edgar Cayce

  Science, Self, Religion

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• A man is not completely born until he is dead.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.113

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