Brenda Ueland Quotes

I believe in life after death.

I actually do believe in life after death.

I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

I don't like to think of myself as just a person. I don't think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I'll exist again after I die here, so I don't exactly know what I am. I don't think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I'm not like you.

I think reincarnation is possible. Hopefully, we all get recycled.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

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

I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

I believe in life after death.

The religious man, the mystic, tries to explore the mystery of death. In exploring the mystery of death, he inevitably comes to know what life is, what love is. Those are not his goals. His goal is to penetrate death, because there seems to be nothing more mysterious than death. Love has some mystery because of death, and life also has some mystery because of death.

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.

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

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