Bernie Siegel Quotes

Today something interesting happened. I died.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience.

I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

I'm sure that I've already been dead.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

But I did die once. (I don't recommend it.)

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

I'm still not sure I didn't die

I believe that everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of a near-death experience and you come back and you see someone [on the other side] - whether that has happened or not, I don't know, but certainly everyone has thought about it at some point or another in time. It's a fantasy that if there is anything out there like that, it would be just terrific, but that remains to be seen.

When you die, are you ever allowed to come back?" "Only if you had your hand stamped.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.

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

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.

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

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.