“The immortality of the soul is that there is no death without life and there is no life after death. Life goes on.”

“What we really long for after death is to go on living this life, this same mortal life, but without its ills without its tedium, and without death. Seneca, the Spaniard, gave expression to this in his Consolatio ad Marciam… And what but that is the meaning of that comic conception of the eternal recurrence which issued from the tragic soul of poor Nietzsche, hungering for concrete and temporal immortality?”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

“What is that the inherence of which, will render the body alive? [The soul. ] …Then whatever the soul possesses, to that she comes bearing life? …And is there an opposite to life? [Death. ] Then the soul, as she has been acknowledged, will never receive the opposite of what she brings. …And what do we call the principle which does not admit of death? [The immortal. ] And does the soul admit of death? [No. ] Then the soul is immortal?”

Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher

“There is no death without life. Therefore, death depends entirely on life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“There is no other god but life. Life is the only holy thing. And when that goes that is the death of God.”

Edmund Cooper book Transit

“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”

Myles Munroe (1954–2014) Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister

“Death is not the end. Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The soul is the guide.”

Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru

“(…) Can there be renewal without death? Even the darkness of sleep is refreshing and rejuvenating. Without death we would have been bogged for ever in eternal senility. (…) When life and death are seen as essential to each other, as two aspects of one being, that is immortality. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

“After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.”

Mario Benedetti (1920–2009) Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet