I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. – Dave Grohl
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity – the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century. – Andrew Greeley
Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt. – Suge Knight
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds for us – must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. – Stanislav Grof
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death. – Stanislav Grof
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material. – Stanislav Grof
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death. – Stanislav Grof
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people. – Stanislav Grof
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped. – Stanislav Grof
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity. – Stanislav Grof
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. – Stanislav Grof
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise. – Stanislav Grof
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know. – Stanislav Grof
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. – Taylor Caldwell
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. – Al Goldstein
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. – Thomas Browne
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. – Thomas Browne
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death. – Polly Toynbee
Death by starvation is slow. – Mary Austin
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out – while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. – Harry Browne