John Donne Quotes

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

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 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.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

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

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

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.

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.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Death is just life's next big adventure.