Zak Bagans Quotes

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

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

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

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

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!

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

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?'

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.