Quotes About Reincarnation

#1. And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

Peter Matthiessen

#2. I personally believe that I was ... a previous life or something ... a previous reincarnation, a bard of some sort, because most of the things I write about are descriptions of places I've never been to.

Marc Bolan

#3. If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.

Brad Warner

#4. It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.

Colson Whitehead

#5. You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may be, that you're not free; you're just studying a different textbook.

Frederick Lenz

#6. All three explanations - eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness - are descriptions of the same reality.

John K. Brown

#7. Life is like a Ferris wheel, going 'round and 'round in one direction. Some of us are lucky enough to remember each trip around." From: Yesterday - A Novel of Reincarnation

Samyann

#8. There was a bright flash of brilliant white light, like the midday summer sun reflecting off of a freshly cleaned mirror.
And then it was gone.

Raymond Rice

#9. Cole felt like he'd stumbled into some arcane Templar practise, his sense of ease disappearing the moment the cups were pulled from the shelf.

Danika Stone

#10. They have to know, for we know , that reincarnation is real.

N.K.David

#11. YOLO. A slogan, a rallying cry, carpe diem for the skateboarder set: You only live once. But was it true? That was the problem, wasn't it? She had never thought about it in any deep way. She hadn't had the time or inclination to speculate about other lives: this one was hard enough to manage.

Sharon Guskin

#12. Every day we wake up into a new world, each sleep causes yet another reincarnation.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#13. He made me feel unhinged ... like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.

Chelsie Shakespeare

#14. I think reincarnation is possible. Hopefully, we all get recycled.

Christina Ricci

#15. If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

Kurt Cobain

#16. Reincarnation is a hopeful understanding of life. It is an accurate understanding of life. In each lifetime we grow, develop and evolve.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Death is the return to the very beginning of one's life, with the possibility of repeating it again.

Samael Aun Weor

#18. We are all one. Everything is meaningless, and yet at the same time meaningful. Everything matters and doesn't matter just as much, Wisdom said and looked beyond time.(Nakoma, by Gala.J)

Gala.J

#19. If the soul is immortal then it is one with the Godhead.

N.K.David

#20. If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.

Hoyt Axton

#21. She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

Leslye Walton

#22. I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive "gift." It is really hard-won experience.

Henry Ford

#23. I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it
that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.

Jane Goodall

#24. Until I see proof of this reincarnation or cloning, I'm gonna live up this life. That was kinda the path I took. But I fulfilled my obligations.

Daniel Tosh

#25. The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle.

Frederick Lenz

#26. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Gautama Buddha

#27. Then you must look for a new body. That's what we call reincarnation.

Alex Chiu

#28. There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure

Jack E. Leonard

#29. I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

Leonard Cohen

#30. I never believed in dharma. karma, reincarnation, or any of that spiritual crap, which caused sort of a problem growing up because my parents are devout Hindus.

Sonia Singh

#31. Jenny retained a flimsy essence of the truth. It was a quiet knowing she'd always hold in her heart...'Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

Oliver Rixon

#32. Mysticism conceives something transcending experience; religion seeks glimpses of a better good or a worse evil than experience can give. Reincarnation need only extend experiences in the sense of repeating them.

G.K. Chesterton

#33. He'd given up his mortality, his soul, for this moment, this second chance, and if she fell in love with him again, he needed to know it was real.

Lisa Kessler

#34. Have you ever met someone and felt like you've known them forever?

Michelle Madow

#35. We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#36. Walking in the nature is a reincarnation!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#37. When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but that's only because they can't handle the idea of the world going on without them.

Leila Sales

#38. in Chicago in 1893. While they introduced the American people to such new words as reincarnation, nirvana, and Karma, the new religions also echoed the creed of self-reliance that had been an article of faith in American religion and culture for almost a century.

George Pendle

#39. Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

Christopher Hitchens

#40. As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.

Frederick Lenz

#41. When the incarnation of the Dakini marked by the dragon is found by her mirror, the chains of the dragon will melt from the land of snows. Prophecy of a Free Tibet

Daniel Prokop

#42. A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print -Reptiles- you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madam, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'

M.C. Escher

#43. In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.

Charleston Parker

#44. Reincarnation is, indeed, the key which unlocks all doors, the universal "combination," before which our manacles fall from our limbs
the life-line by which the crooked way is made straight.

Shaw Desmond

#45. 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.

Walt Whitman

#46. Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Paul Brunton

#47. I am the reincarnation of Pikachu. That's why my hair is yellow, you see.

Akihiro Miwa

#48. Reincarnation doesn't simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another body, it means that the spirit of life is continually renewing itself and moving to a higher level.

Frederick Lenz

#49. The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

Evan Osnos

#50. I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

Paul Krassner

#51. And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

Barry McGuire

#52. Reincarnation is happening all the time. Every moment we are going through a change. Our being isn't solid. Reincarnation is now.

Frederick Lenz

#53. The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is.

Frederick Lenz

#54. Its not possible to do the wrong thing. You do what you do and you experience the consequences of what you do. If you do not experience this before you doe, your soul creates a new life so that you can. This is reincarnation. Eventually, you treat people as you would like to be treated.

Gary Zukav

#55. Sharing feelings, conveying appreciation and whispering desires are all crucial components of a satisfying encounter with your beloved.

Brownell Landrum

#56. He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

Spalding Gray

#57. If I had my time again, I'd believe in reincarnation.

Zia Haider Rahman

#58. Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

Bernard Goldberg

#59. Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.

Frederick Lenz

#60. And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.

Kahlil Gibran

#61. If there is reincarnation, I would like to be born as Sonu Niigaam.

Sonu Nigam

#62. Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

Albert Schweitzer

#63. Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.

Dalai Lama XIV

#64. I write because I die again and again at the hands of a world that cannot have me or make me fit. I write because each poem is my reincarnation.
I write to remember the self that inherits me every time another self dies. I write because I cannot lie still.

Jennifer Militello

#65. I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.

Bjorn Lomborg

#66. Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you've met them before?

JoAnne Kenrick

#67. She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman. "Let me become a cat or dog, but not a woman," was her constant murmur as she shuffled around the house, oozing apology with every step.

Jung Chang

#68. Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice. Rinpoche

Daniel Prokop

#69. The doctrine of Reincarnation says that each individual soul is potentially perfect and is gradually unfolding its powers and making them actual through the process of Evolution.

Swami Abhedananda

#70. Jenny sensed the energy of the cosmos. It was like a harmonious orchestra vibrating the universe into existence.' Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon

Oliver Rixon

#71. Reincarnation offers a better justification of evil than anything monotheism can offer, but it does so by blaming the victim and sanctifying the status quo.

Patricia Crone

#72. The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:
It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

Sri Aurobindo

#73. Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow.

Frederick Lenz

#74. Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.

Sylvia Browne

#75. Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.

Frederick Lenz

#76. Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

Marilyn Monroe

#77. Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.

Rudolf Steiner

#78. You know that if I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

William Faulkner

#79. Fate and destiny go hand in hand. It is impossible to change our destiny. Only the path upon which we walk to reach our destination alters. If we should stray from that path, fate will take control and guide us in the right direction.

J.A. Belfield

#80. Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored ...

Sarah Kernochan

#81. Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to span
When it gathers to egg once more

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#82. Reincarnation is implicit in the manifested universe and is a basic and fundamental.

Alice Bailey

#83. Do people who believe in reincarnation ever say, Darn, I'm still writing the year 1612 on my checks!

Brian Regan

#84. I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.

Lee Trevino

#85. 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.

James Joyce

#86. Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

Frederick Lenz

#87. Megan, I love you,. I will always love you."
I swallowed hard.
"Scared?" He asked.
"Yeah. How about you?"
"Even more than the first time," He said. "I know what it feels like to lose you."
Then he bent his head and kissed me.

Elizabeth Chandler

#88. Attraction is explained as a function of reincarnation: people who knew each other in past lives are helpless in the face of an emotion which has passed, untouched, through bodily death. Who wouldn't be?

Brenda Walker

#89. The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans
34 percent of them
in reincarnation are dangerous. They help to break down the standards of reason.

Wendy Kaminer

#90. 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.

Gillian Anderson

#91. A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#92. In this life or the next, I hold you to your promise Mikhail Ivelitsch.

Travis Luedke

#93. I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

Mark Twain

#94. I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear

Charleston Parker

#95. Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.

Bob Weir

#96. I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.

Frederick Lenz

#97. Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

E.M. Delafield

#98. The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

Dalai Lama

#99. We are all simply reacting, played by events that occurred centuries before.

Marti Melville

#100. I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe