Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Life is an endless cycle for those who believe in reincarnation.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

Everything that gets born dies.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

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

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.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way.

Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.

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 the mother of forms.

I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges.

This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.