Richard Jefferies Quotes

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

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.

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

I don't believe in an afterlife.

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.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

I believe in life after death.

The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

I think, when we start dealing with heaven or hell issues, what we really need to gravitate toward is that man is an eternal spirit. And if you believe that he is an eternal spirit then all it does, it abandons the body.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

I believe in life after death.

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.

I actually do believe in life after death.

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.