Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

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.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

I believe in life after death.

I actually do believe in life after death.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

Look at another person while living; the soul is not visible, only the body which it animates. Therefore, merely because after death the soul is not visible is no demonstration that it does not still live.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

The doctrine of immortality rests upon human affection. We love; therefore, we wish to live.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.