Pam Grier Quotes

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

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 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.

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster.

The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.

I died. Which is fantastic, because I have died already; I have been there and come back. I am completely recovered, thank you.

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.

If there was such a thing as re-incarnation, Floyd would come back as himself

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.

I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when a man is fully awakened, from one body to the body of the whole universe. It is a great journey, but you cannot know it from the outside. From outside, only symptoms are available; and those symptoms have made people afraid.