I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is read more

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

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

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

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life read more

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after read more

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as read more

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.