Chief Seattle Quotes

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

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

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

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!

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.

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.

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.

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.

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Death is just a continuation of life.

I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.

There isn't such a thing as death. It's just a departure.

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

Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

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.

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

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

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.