Charles Mackay Quotes

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Death is the beginning of something.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Who ever said that one was born just once?