Rick Wakeman Quotes

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.

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

Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.

Death is the Graduation of the Soul

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

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

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.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

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

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

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.

I want to be buried with a mobile phone, just in case I'm not dead.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'