W. G. Sebald Quotes

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

'Graveminder' is about a mortician, a young woman with commitment issues, a dead teenager, and a town called Claysville where the dead don't always stay dead.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.

I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Religion is an irrational construct.

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

Many cultures believe that on a certain day - Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico's 'Dia de los Muertos' - the veil between this world and the next is especially thin.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.

I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.

Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.

Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.

The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.

If life after death really does exist, everyone probably gets what they expect to get, because that's the only thing I can think of that would be fair.

My mom was a practicing Hindu, and my dad was a Catholic who practiced yoga meditation and karma yoga. My earliest memories are of the bright colors, beautiful sounds, and fragrant aromas of both Christian and Hindu celebrations.

Links are formed karmically on the earth and then continue between death and a new birth. Those who are able to see into the spiritual world perceive how the dead person gradually makes more and more links - all of which are the outcome of karmic connections formed on earth.

When I die, I want to come back as me.

I'm petrified of reincarnation because, you know, I like being me.

In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That is why I have a lot of curiosity about the unseen force and invisible things.

I might be an actor professionally, but as a person I should know what our rituals, religion or our history is. Kumbh Mela really helps you in this.

God bless the dead.

I am probably spiritual in the sense that I do believe there is more to life than what we see.