“My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.” IfsKnowsNeedsDeathHeavenHellEventsHugeThirdsEncouragementRemainsImmortalityPetHopelessParting Author:Emily Dickinson
“I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.” ShouldHumansKindIdeasSoulStatesPhilosophyLightEyeDeathLyingReligionFireMankindEventsProductsFineModelsDevilMereRegionsAfterlifeVentureShockingFuryGloomDepartedGeneralitiesCerberusDeparted Soul Book:Dialogues and Natural History of Religion Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion
“For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.” WorldFactsDeathEventsEvents In Life Book:Notebooks, 1914-1916 Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916