Philip James Bailey Quotes

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

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

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonymity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Death does not exist.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

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?'

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

Death is not just the end, it's the beginning.

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.

We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.

I believe in life after death.

There is no death. The body withers but the spirit still lives.