Quotes About Transcendence

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

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.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

Death is a name for beauty not in use.

Someday death will take us to another star.

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

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

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.