To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to heaven conveyed,
And bade it blossom there.

Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to heaven conveyed,
And bade it blossom there.

...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope read more

...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26].

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26].

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.

It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.