Eleven Quotes About Reincarnation

What happens to our consciousness after we die? That is, perhaps, life’s greatest mystery, and one that countless thought leaders have tried to explain through the ages with no tangible success. And yet, most people alive today believe that the soul or spirit — the essence of our being — lives on after the body dies. For the world’s more than 1.1 billion Hindus and the majority of its roughly 500,000 Buddhists, that belief is incorporated in the concept of reincarnation — the belief that the spirit is reborn in another form, possibly human, possibly animal, possibly spiritual — after biological death. This belief is encapsulated in the eleven quotes about reincarnation shown below.

1. “Life is eternal, and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

– Rossiter Worthington Raymond

2. “Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.”

– Sir Walter Scott

3. “We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”

– Nikita Gill

4. “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

– Rabindranath Tagore

 

5. “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

– Edgar Allan Poe

 

 

6.“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

– Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five”

7. “If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”

-Henry Miller 

 

 

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

-William Penn

 

 



9. “Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. “

-Arundhati Roy

 

10.“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

– J.K. Rowling

 

11. “Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.”

-Mahatma Gandhi