“If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.” IfsWayBelieveHas BeensSoulMatterReasonBodyEarthDeathHeavenAnswersRoomsBreakSeasonsEternityLeavingFlightBuriedPassagesWombCorpsesPassage Of Time Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.” LifeWisdomLastsDeathAnswersAnalysisConception Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.” LoveSaidDeathAnswersTheeSilver Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.” MenArtDeathDiesAsksGivenAnswersForeverCreaturesInstinctVainUrges Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.” IfsFormDeathAnswersAcceptingDyingSweetEternalTransformationSympathyAffirmativeLove DeathSomeone DyingLoved One DyingSweet Death Book:Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography Source: Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography