Parents remain our touchstones,
Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present. Ellen Goodman
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Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present. Ellen Goodman
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified…. after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling. Elizabeth Bowen
I thought of the priest who’d told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before. Elizabeth Berg
I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth … Read more
And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you? E. M. Forster
Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. E. L. Doctorow
Men after death … are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. Friedrich Nietzsche