Dalai Lama Quotes

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

When I die, I want to come back as me.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

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 have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

Death is the beginning of something.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

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

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

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

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

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?

If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.

I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.