Khalil Gibran Quotes

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

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

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

I think reincarnation is possible. Hopefully, we all get recycled.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

My only fear of death is reincarnation

I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death.

This is earth again, the earth where I've lived and now will live once more ... I've been to eternity and back. I know how the dead would feel to live again.

I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

I like the idea of reincarnation. I'm not a true believer, but I think the idea is beautiful, that life just doesn't stop. For soulmates, it's the term that I'm a little bit skeptical of. As soon as you put a label on something, it seems like that's it, you're done. Obviously I believe in love and making it last forever, but what's beautiful about that is you don't know if it's going to last forever. When you don't know that this is it, you, I think, enjoy it more.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.