Fela Kuti Quotes

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

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

And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

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.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Certainly, we all wonder what is beyond, and when you lose a loved one, I think part of the grieving process includes where that person might have gone or if you'll ever see them again. I think it forces you to look up to the sky, to the cosmos.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in there, and we'll see one another again, in some shape or form or whatever. It's not the end.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

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

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

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

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

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.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

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

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.