Reincarnation Quotes
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation. (Quote by - Gail Parent)
It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. Existence is worthless. (Quote by - Howard Weinstein)
I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions in was not yet able to answer; that I had to be born again because I had not fulfilled the task that was given to me. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation. (Quote by - Alex Chiu)
I think reincarnation is possible. Hopefully, we all get recycled. (Quote by - Christina Ricci)
Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
He is not the hope of a Tory future because he is the reincarnation of a failed Tory past. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me. (Quote by - Roland Joffe)
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)
My life often seemed to me like a story that has no beginning and no end. I had the feeling that I was an historical fragment, an excerpt for which the preceding and succeeding text was missing. I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence. (Quote by - Socrates)
Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Doctrine of reincarnation is neither absurd nor useless. It is not more surprising to be born twice than once. (Quote by - Voltaire)
I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times. (Quote by - Goethe)
I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain. (Quote by - John Masefield)
The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another. (Quote by - Julius Caesar)
I look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
So as through a glass and darkly, the age long strife I see, Where I fought in many guises, many names, but always me. (Quote by - General George S. Patton)
Reincarnation: People coming back to life at quitting time. (Quote by - Anonymous)
As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes. (Quote by - H.D. Thoreau)
One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only some kind of velvety cool blackness, adding then: Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born. (Quote by - Jack London)
It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it. (Quote by - J D Salinger)
I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster. (Quote by - Shane Ritchie)
As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God. (Quote by - Count Leo Tolstoy)
This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed. So, therefore, I believe in our active employment in a future life, and I like the thought. (Quote by - General Charles Chinese Gordon)
The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain. (Quote by - Emerson)
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things. (Quote by - Honore Balzac)
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? (Quote by - Jalalu 'D-Din Rumi)
Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter. (Quote by - Erik Erikson)
The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body. (Quote by - Giordano Bruno)
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again! (Quote by - Freidrich Nietzsche)
There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive. (Quote by - Nobel Laureate)
Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude. (Quote by - Frederick the Great)
The doctrine of transmigration… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; … none but very hasty thinkers will reject it on the grounds of inherent absurdity. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. (Quote by - Swami Vivekananda)
God generates beings, and sends them back over and over again, till they return to Him. (Quote by - Koran)
Souls are poured from one into another of different kinds of bodies of the world. (Quote by - Jesus Christ)
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)
But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.' Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist. (Quote by - Jesus)
Some people believe that we go on living in another body after death, that we lived before. They call it reincarnation. That we all lived before on the earth thousands of years ago or on some other planet. They say we have forgotten it. Some say they remember their past lives. (Quote by - James Joyce)
No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least. (Quote by - Robert Graves)
But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around. (Quote by - Waylon Jennings)
He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another. (Quote by - Herman Hesse)
All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies. (Quote by - Jewish historian Josephus)
My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others. (Quote by - Gillian Anderson)
I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, / There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but a creative artist. The greatest of all. And what characterises artists is that they want to redo their work. Maybe it didn't come off perfectly, so they want to see it done again, and improved. Reincarnation is a way for God to improve his earlier works. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
