Anthony Burgess Quotes

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

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

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

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.

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.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

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 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.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

Death does not exist.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.