Melvyn Bragg Quotes

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time.

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

In my beginning is my end.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

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

In my end is my beginning.

Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

Each soul or entity will and does return, or cycle, as does nature in its manifestations about man; thus leaving, making or presenting-as it were-those infallible, indelible truths that it -Life-is continuous.

Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death.

Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Life comes full circle.

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

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.

The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms