John Burroughs Quotes

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

I don't believe in death.

I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way.

Working on 'Beyond,' I try to give an explanation to death that's different from the explanation religions have to give. So I made up my own story around all this and how life and death and souls work.

Und dasTotsein ist mu« hsam und voller Nachholn, dass man allm a« hlich ein wenig Ewigkeit spu« rt. And being dead is hard work and full of retrieval before one can gradually feel a trace of eternity.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.