- Death is just life’s next big adventure. K. Rowling
- To die will be an awfully big adventure. James M. Barrie
- Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure. Oliver Lodge
- Death is the most beautiful adventure in life. Charles Frohman
- Why fear death? Death is only a beautiful adventure. Charles Frohman
- To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. K. Rowling
- Life is one of Gods greatest Journeys, But Death is the next great Adventure. Chris Cole
- I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. Gerry Spence
- Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known. Janet Morris
- Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance. Joseph Bayly
- Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure. Alice Foote MacDougall
- The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. Simone de Beauvoir
- What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death. Jean-Paul Sartre
- Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death. Albert Einstein
- I think death is a tremendous adventure – a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons. Leslie Weatherhead
- Enjoy the adventure, because that’s what it’s all about – the process, not the result. The ultimate result is death. The ultimate process is life. Fact. Jolie Booth
- Death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand. Randy Alcorn
- For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently. Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Lawrence saw death as the beginning of a ‘great adventure’ in which – as he writes in his poem ‘Gladness of Death’ – ‘the winds of the afterwards kiss us into the blossom of manhood’. Steve Taylor
- I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure. Albert Camus
- The ultimate adventure: to discover for certain who we are, what the universe is, and what is the significance of the brief drama of life and death we play out against the backdrop of eternity. Eknath Easwaran
- We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death. Johann Baptist Metz
- I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly… looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives! Carl Jung
- The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. Pierre Mac Orlan
- Many people avoid talking about death, but it never bothered me. The principal of my high school was an excellent teacher. One day he was writing on the blackboard when he suddenly turned around and said ‘Life is a great adventure and death is the greatest adventure of all,’ then went back to the board. I have never feared death since then. Kathryn Tucker Windham
- The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life’s joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure – fearlessness and achievement. Joseph Campbell
- Exactly what happens after death is pure conjecture. Maybe I get to see first-hand the combined kaleidoscope of all experience. Maybe I get to consciously choose a new adventure to experience from an almost unlimited range of options, some of which involve forgetting who I am and some don’t. Maybe I get to return to a state of ever-present, timeless oneness and bliss, reunited with God’s Infinite Being. Or maybe, all of the above. Instead of allowing my imagination to terrify myself to death, I use it to inspire myself to life. Anthony Lambert
- When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure–with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown. Elizabeth Lesser
- A lot of things are inherent in life – change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds – but these events don’t have to be the cause of ongoing suffering. Yes, these events cause grief and sadness, but grief and sadness pass, like everything else, and are replaced with other experiences. The ego, however, clings to negative thoughts and feelings and, as a result, magnifies, intensifies, and sustains those emotions while the ego overlooks the subtle feelings of joy, gratitude, excitement, adventure, love, and peace that come from Essence. If we dwelt on these positive states as much as we generally dwell on our negative thoughts and painful emotions, our lives would be transformed. Gina Lake
- I was told to think of my time on Earth as an extended visit to the ultimate theme park. Consider it a place with thrilling rides and various adventures that I could choose to experience or not. I was also reminded that the reason we leave the celestial realm at all was for the excitement, variety, adventure, and entertainment that different incarnations offer. However, to take all our celestial knowledge with us on our various adventures would have ruined the very experience that we had chosen to live. Someone there said that I should think of our trips to other realms as choosing a new novel to read. I can choose a new book, depending on what I am in the mood for. Furthermore, if I knew every turn and twist of the story, line by line, prior to reading it, it would spoil the fun. Duane S (near death)
