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William Penn Quotes about Death

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

"Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life".

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.92

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

William Penn (1841). “Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.81

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

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.183

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.127