Life After Death Quotes

• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  Carl Sagan

  Death, History, Would Be

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.355, Ballantine Books

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• Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Losing A Loved One, Home

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• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Death, Rest In Peace

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• Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

  Helen Keller

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

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• Death is the greatest illusion of all.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Illusion, After Death

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• You live on Earth only for a few short years which you call an incarnation, and then you leave your body as an outworn dress and go for refreshment to your true home in the spirit.

  Chief White Eagle

  Home, Years, Religion

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• Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.

  Wayne Dyer

  Death, Knowing, Energy

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.25, Hay House, Inc

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Father, Thinking

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• I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Good Morning, Death, Sleep

  Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (2011). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself”, p.288, Cambridge University Press

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• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide the five senses with evidence of non-physical reality. It cannot be done. The five senses; sight,hearing, taste and smell together form a single sensory system whose object of detection is physical reality. This cannot detect non-physical reality. Humankind is beginning to be able to access data the 5 senses cannot provide.

  Gary Zukav

  Reality, Sight, Data

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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• I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Death, Believe, Two Sides

  Norman Vincent Peale (1987). “The power of positive thinking”, Prentice Hall

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.

  Carl Jung

  Death, Loss, Imagination

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• The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
  Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Grieving, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.217

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• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Travel, Adventure

  J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

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• Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

  Walter Scott

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Death, Spiritual

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  Jack Lemmon

  Life, True Love, Death

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• If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

  Will Rogers

  Cute, Death, Loyalty

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• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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