Henry David Thoreau Quotes

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

'Orphee' is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving behind an old life in Copenhagen, and building a new one in Berlin - about the death of old relationships and the birth of new ones.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

We will kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens.

Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.

I know I can't stay here forever

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

What has been is no more. Change has come.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.