Frederic William Farrar Quotes

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

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.

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.

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!

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

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.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

I don't believe in death.

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

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?

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

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.

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

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

Death does not exist.

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.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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.