Michael J. Knowles Quotes

This human body is very much a vehicle that's used to the constraints of time but once the body is old and used up our minds go into an eternal space.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

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

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

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated!

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

I don't think you change from the time you're 16 until you die. Maybe your body changes, and you have different experiences, but I think you become a fully conscious soul with full abilities. Souls are eternal, and if you keep your marbles until you croak in your 90s or your 100s, you're the same.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.