Joanna Lumley Quotes

I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

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

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

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

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.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

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

Death does not exist.

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

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

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.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

I don't believe in death.

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.

I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

Death is a reality, and one day I'm not going to be here anymore, and whatever's next might not be that bad either.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.