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| "Dead My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me."~The Egyptian Book of the Dead~ |
| "I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead."~Socrates~ |
| "O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted!"~William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Act III, Scene I ~ |
| "It is an unwise man who thinks what has changed is dead."~Anonymous~ |
"There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it."~Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter~ |
"The distance that the dead have gone
Does not at first appear --
Their coming back seems possible
For many an ardent year."
~Emily Dickinson~ |
"...Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart- drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream, and lo! The shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls."
~Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Gettysburg, October 3, 1886~ |
"Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.."
~Emily Dickinson~ |
"Death sets a thing significant
The eye had hurried by,
Except a perished creature
Entreat us tenderly."
~Emily Dickinson~ |
"The only Ghost I ever saw
Was dressed in Mechlin -- so --
He wore no sandal on his foot --
And stepped like flakes of snow --
His Gait -- was soundless, like the Bird --
But rapid -- like the Roe --
His fashions, quaint, Mosaic --
Or haply, Mistletoe --
His conversation -- seldom --
His laughter, like the Breeze --
That dies away in Dimples
Among the pensive Trees --
Our interview -- was transient --
Of me, himself was shy --
And God forbid I look behind --
Since that appalling Day!"
~Emily Dickinson~ |
"When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead,
And that thou thinkst thee free
From all solicitation from me,
Then shall my ghost come to thy bed,
And thee, feign'd vestal, in worse arms shall see:
Then thy sick taper will begin to wink,
And he, whose thou art then, being tired before,
Will, if thou stir, or pinch to wake him, think
Thou call'st for more,
And, in false sleep, will from thee shrink:
And then, poor aspen wretch, neglected thou
Bathed in a cold quicksilver sweat wilt lie,
A verier ghost than I.
~John Donne - The Apparition~ |
"I Dwell in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago,
And left no trace but the cellar walls,
And a cellar in which the daylight falls,
And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow.
O'er ruined fences the grape-vines shield
The woods come back to the mowing field;
The orchard tree has grown one copse
Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chops;
The footpath down to the well is healed.
I dwell with a strangely aching heart
In that vanished abode there far apart
On that disused and forgotten road
That has no dust-bath now for the toad.
Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart;
The whippoorwill is coming to shout
And hush and cluck and flutter about:
I hear him begin far enough away
Full many a time to say his say
Before he arrives to say it out.
It is under the small, dim, summer star.
I know not who these mute folk are
Who share the unlit place with me--
Those stones out under the low-limbed tree
Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar.
They are tireless folk, but slow and sad,
Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,--
With none among them that ever sings,
And yet, in view of how many things,
As sweet companions as might be had.
"~Robert Frost - Ghost House~ |
| "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."~Socrates~ |
| "The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."~Plato~ |
| "The immortality of the soul is demonstrated by many proofs."~Plato~ |
| "Souls are always hastening to the upper world where they desire to dwell."~Socrates~ |
| "How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to on another in a waking state?"~Plato~ |
| "Death is no more than passing from one room into another. "~Helen Keller~ |
| "For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."~William Penn~ |
| "Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death."~Erik H. Erikson~ |
| "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known." ~Blaise Pascal~ |
| "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." ~Socrates~ |
| "Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning." ~Mitch Albom: The Five People You Meet in Heaven~ |
| "Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, "Did you bring joy?"
The second was, "Did you find joy?"~Leo Buscaglia~ |
| "Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just ourselves."~Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death~ |
"Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away into the next room,
I am I and you are you;
Whatever we were to each other, That we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used,
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we shared together.
Let my name ever be the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant,
It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the
corner.
All is well."~Henry Scott Holland Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London~ |
| "There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."~Leonardo da Vinci~ |
| "Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow."~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross~ |
| "There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross~ |
| "Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!"~Nathaniel Hawthorne~ |
| "For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks behind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word."~Frank Kafka~ |
| "For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks behind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word."~Frank Kafka~ |
| "To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"~Socrates~ |
| "There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being."~Arthur Schopenhauer~ |
| "Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."~Neil Armstrong~ |
| "What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."~William Blake~ |
"Between
Our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its wing."
"~José Ortega y Gasset~ |
"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
"~Christopher Fry, The Boy with a Cart~ |
"Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther."
"~Isaac Watts~ |
| "Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes, but by what the evidence reveals to us."~Alan Hale~ |
| "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." ~Carl Sagan~ |
| "All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil." ~Benjamin Disraeli~ |
| "Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep." ~John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book. IV, l. 678)~ |
| "Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will."~D. H. Lawrence~ |
| We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgment of the intellect is only part of the truth."~Carl Jung~ |
| "Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground."~Lord Byron~ |
| "When my obituary notice at last appears in The Times , and they say: "What, I thought he died years ago," my ghost will gently chuckle."~William Somerset Maugham~ |
| “Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving."~Mark Twain~ |
| "Ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to churchyards."
~William Shakespeare~ |
| "An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself."
~Charles Dickens~ |
| "Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?"
~ John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book. II, l. 681)~ |
| "For spirits when they please / Can either sex assume, or both."~John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book. I, l. 423)~ |
| "It is possible that there exists emotions that are still unknown to us. Do you remember how electrical currents and unseen waves were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy." ~Albert Einstein~ |
| "All that we see is but a dream within a dream." ~Edgar Allen Poe~ |
| "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead. People feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand, looking out the window, sound and well in some new disguise." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ |
| "Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires and animates is something celestial and divine and consequently imperishable."~Aristotle~ |
| "Wisdom begins in wonder." ~Socrates~ |
| "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." ~Socrates~ |
| "My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls. A noise of falling weights that never fell, Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand, Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door, And bolted doors that open'd of themselves; And one betwixt the dark and light had seen Her, bending by the cradle of her babe."~Lord Alfred Tennyson~ |
| "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." ~Henri Bergson~ |
| "Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open."~Lord Thomas Dewar~ |
| "'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains."~Homer~ |
| "Why then should witlesse man so much misweene that nothing is, but that which he hath seen." ~Edmund Spencer~ |
| "There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world." ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle~ |
| "Don't mix spirits with spirits." ~Reverend Rita Berkowitz on ISIS Paranormal Radio~ |
| "Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." ~Mary Ellen Kelly~ |
| "The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~ |
| "The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek." ~Claude Bernard~ |
| "You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." ~Leonardo da Vinci~ |
| "Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"~Leonardo da Vinci~ |
| "Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."~Carl Sagan~ |
| "When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."~Carl Sagan~ |
| "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."~Albert Einstein~ |
| "While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?"~Confucius~ |
| "Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger."~Cicero~ |
| "Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."~Shakti Gawain~ |
| "No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."~Minor White~ |
| "What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection."~Oprah Winfrey~ |
| "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle~ |
| "We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary."~Antonin Artaud~ |
| "A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi~ |
| "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi~ |
| "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."~Douglas Adams~ |
| "The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."~Frank Herbert~ |
| "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."~Helen Keller~ |
| "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."~Marcel Proust~ |
| "There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made."~Richard Feynman~ |
| "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."~Benjamin Disraeli~ |
| "Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."~Edgar Allan Poe~ |
| "In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."~Aaron Rose~ |
| "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."~Albert Einstein~ |
| "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."~Bertrand Russell~ |
| "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."~James Thurber~ |
| "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."~Albert Einstein~ |
| "Everything you can imagine is real."~Pablo Picasso~ |
| "Humankind cannot stand very much reality."~T. S. Eliot~ |
| "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."~Arthur Schopenhauer~ |
| "Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."~Mark Twain~ |
