Richard Nixon Quotes

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

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.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

Death is the separation of soul from body.

I believe in life after death.

When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

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

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

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

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

I don't want to hear about my death.

Corporeal death is not the whole story.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

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.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.