Lucretius Quotes

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

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

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

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?

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

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.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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.

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

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

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.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

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

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

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.

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.